Famous quotes by Physicists

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"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, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"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, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years!"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

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

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

Stephen Hawking

"The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Reason we call that faculty innate in us, of discovering laws and applying them with thought"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"It was the defining event, and remains a thousand degrees hot"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Iron, which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different?"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it"

John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

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