Quotes about Physics

Because every bit of carbon we put into the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. There's no getting around physics.

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

In order to live in accord with nature, it is necessary to know what nature is; and to this end a threefold division of philosophy is made—into Physics, dealing with the universe and its laws, the problems of divine government and teleology; Logic, which trains the mind to discern true from false; and Ethics, which applies the knowledge thus gained and tested to practical life.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.