Physics Quotes

Einstein

2010-02-24T11:26:00.000-08:00

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better"

Albert Einstein

Einstein

2010-02-24T11:19:00.000-08:00

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

Albert Einstein

Lederman

2009-09-07T15:05:00.000-07:00

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Leon Lederman

lederman

2009-09-07T14:57:00.000-07:00

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

Leon Lederman

Leo Szilard

2008-02-12T10:18:00.001-08:00

"If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier."

Leo Szilard

John A Wheeler

2007-09-09T13:49:00.000-07:00

"I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."

John A Wheeler

Einstein

2007-08-15T09:58:00.000-07:00

"In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds."

Albert Einstein

Feynman

2007-08-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

"Hardly anyone can understand the importance of an idea, it is so remarkable. Except that, possibly, some children catch on. And when a child catches on to an idea like that, we have a scientist...It's too late for them to get the spirit when they are in our universities, so we must attempt to explain these ideas to children."

Richard Feynman

Lederman

2007-08-14T08:49:00.003-07:00

"When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist’s life, I’m speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo’s work was condemned by the church, Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us get enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night…"

Leon Lederman
Nobel Laureates in Physics 1988

Isaac Newton

2007-07-27T15:20:00.000-07:00

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

2007-07-27T15:18:00.000-07:00

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. "

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

2007-07-27T15:15:00.000-07:00

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."

Isaac Newton

Werner Heisenberg

2007-07-21T21:19:00.001-07:00

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

2007-07-21T21:18:00.004-07:00

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning."

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

2007-07-21T21:18:00.003-07:00

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them

Werner Heisenberg

L.T. Handoko

2007-07-21T21:18:00.001-07:00

Peneliti itu harus diberi kebebasan, yang paling penting dia harus dituntut harus bisa menghasilkan karya ilmiah di jurnal internasional untuk yang teoritik dan paten untuk yang aplikatif

L.T. Handoko
Fisikawan

Albert Einstein

2007-07-20T10:58:00.001-07:00

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

Albert Einstein

Yohanes Surya

2007-07-20T10:57:00.001-07:00

"Fisika memang penuh rumus. Setiap materi bahkan punya rumus lebih dari satu. Tapi bukan berarti kita harus menghafalkan sebegitu banyak rumus. Sebab, kalau kita memahami teorinya lebih dulu, kita dengan sendirinya akan tahu rumusnya."

Yohanes Surya
Fisikawan

Richard P. Feynman

2007-07-15T08:43:00.000-07:00

"... I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics."

Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

2007-07-15T08:42:00.000-07:00

"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."

Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

2007-07-15T08:39:00.000-07:00

"So I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never."

Richard P. Feynman

David Gross

2007-06-23T04:56:00.005-07:00

"If a country neglects basic research it is doomed to be always a follower and not a leader, and it will lose its most talented young scientists who will go elsewhere. Healthy science is like a healthy tree: you cannot destroy the roots and hope that the branches will flourish."

David Gross
2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Hans J. Wospakrik

2007-06-23T04:56:00.003-07:00

"Memahami fisika itu tidak hanya di kepala, tapi sampai merasuk kedalam jiwa."

Hans J. Wospakrik
Fisikawan

Tjia May On

2007-06-23T04:56:00.001-07:00

"Yang paling bikin saya selalu merinding adalah Persamaan Maxwell. Itu persamaan klasik, of course nonquantum mechanics karena dia gelombang, tidak bicara tentang foton. Di pihak lain, meski tidak manifestly covariant, Persamaan Maxwell itu memang relativistik. Waktu Pak Maxwell, belum ada relativitas, tapi karya besar itu kok otomatis relativistik."

Tjia May On
Fisikawan

Tjia May On

2007-06-23T04:55:00.002-07:00

"Justru dalam fisika fundamental, tingkat kerumitan kadang kurang. Fisika dikenal sebagai ilmu paling universal, mendasar, menangani peristiwa yang terjadi dalam segala macam sistem. Gravitasi di mana pun ada. Tapi dibandingkan dengan kimia, kimia lebih banyak kerumitan. Biologi malah lebih rumit. Di sana lebih susah mencari esensi itu. Sejarah juga begitu. Begitu banyak peristiwa yang terjadi, bagaimana dia bisa mencari benang merahnya? "

Tjia May On
Fisikawan

Goenawan Mohammad

2007-06-23T04:55:00.001-07:00

"Ada persamaan antara seorang penemu alat-alat dan seorang penyusun konsep-konsep fisika: mereka bermula dari kebebasan jiwa, dan berlanjut dalam kreasi. Kedua-duanya menolak pengekangan. Keduanya melintasi tabu."

Goenawan Mohammad
Penulis, Mantan Jurnalis Tempo

Albert Einstein

2007-06-20T16:28:00.000-07:00

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

2007-06-20T16:24:00.000-07:00

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

Albert Einstein

Paul Dirac

2007-06-20T16:23:00.000-07:00

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

2007-06-20T16:21:00.000-07:00

"A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data."

Paul Dirac

Albert Einstein

2007-06-20T16:16:00.000-07:00

"God does not play dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein

Stephen Hawking

2007-06-20T16:15:00.000-07:00

"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.""

Stephen Hawking

Niels Bohr

2007-06-19T15:34:00.001-07:00

"Stop telling God what to do!"

Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

2007-06-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."

Niels Bohr

Albert Einstein

2007-06-18T11:40:00.000-07:00

"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."

Albert Einstein

Stephen Hawking

2007-06-18T11:37:00.000-07:00

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

Stephen Hawking

Wolfgang Pauli

2007-06-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

"I have done something very bad today by proposing a particle that cannot be detected; it is something no theorist should ever do."

Wolfgang Pauli
To his friend when devised the notion of the neutrino in 1930.

Carl Sagan

2007-06-18T11:29:00.000-07:00

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan

Stephen Hawking

2007-06-18T11:24:00.000-07:00

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

Stephen Hawking

Marie Curie

2007-06-15T19:44:00.001-07:00

"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. "

Marie Curie

Albert Einstein

2007-06-15T19:42:00.000-07:00

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

Albert Einstein

Carl Sagan

2007-06-15T19:41:00.000-07:00

"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop uptheir beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? "

Carl Sagan

Galileo

2007-06-15T19:40:00.000-07:00

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo

Niels Bohr

2007-06-15T19:39:00.000-07:00

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

Niels Bohr

Carl Sagan

2007-06-14T13:07:00.000-07:00

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

Carl Sagan

Gerardus 't Hooft

2007-06-14T12:56:00.000-07:00

"A man who knows everything. This, reportedly, was my reply to a school teacher asking me what I'd like to become when I grow up. I was eight years old, or thereabouts, and what I wanted to say was 'professor', but, still not knowing everything, I had forgotten that word. And what I really meant was 'scientist', someone who unravels the secrets of the fundamental Laws of Nature."

Gerardus 't Hooft
Nobel Laureates in Physics 1999

Carl Sagan

2007-06-14T12:49:00.001-07:00

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

Paul Dirac

2007-06-14T10:51:00.000-07:00

"God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe."

Paul Dirac

Michael Faraday

2007-06-13T16:49:00.000-07:00

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature."

Michael Faraday

Zhores I. Alferov

2007-06-13T16:44:00.000-07:00

"When I was a little boy of ten, I have read a wonderful book Two Captains (by V. Kaverin). In essence, in my life I have been following the principle that was peculiar the main character of that book: One should make efforts and search for. And having obtained whatever the purpose, to make efforts again. Of great importance here is to know what you are struggling for."

Zhores I. Alferov
Nobel Laureates in Physics 2000

Abdus Salam

2007-06-13T16:38:00.000-07:00

"The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart."

Abdus Salam
Nobel Laureates in Physics 1979

Daniel C. Tsui

2007-06-13T16:19:00.000-07:00

"...the only meaningful life is a life of learning. What better way is there to learn than through teaching!
"

Daniel C. Tsui
Nobel Laureates in Physics 1998

Isaac Newton

2007-06-13T16:17:00.000-07:00

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton

Feynman

2007-06-13T14:14:00.000-07:00

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."

Richard P. Feynman

Einstein

2007-06-13T14:10:00.000-07:00

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."

Albert Einstein

Niels Bohr

2007-06-12T19:21:00.000-07:00

"If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

Niels Bohr

Aristoteles

2007-06-12T14:48:00.000-07:00

"The search for truth is in one way hard and in another easy. For it is evident that no one can master it fully nor miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature and from all the facts assembled these arises a certain grandeur."

Aristoteles

Carl Sagan

2007-06-11T17:53:00.002-07:00

"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."

Carl Sagan

Werner Heisenberg

2007-06-11T17:53:00.001-07:00

"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."

Werner Heisenberg

Stephen Hawking

2007-06-11T17:52:00.002-07:00

"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

Stephen Hawking

Lord Kelvin

2007-06-11T17:52:00.001-07:00

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."

Lord Kelvin