Physics Quotes - Page 2

Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.

Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday. Sorry I missed the Wednesday lunch date, but I was in a black hole all morning.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.