Famous quotes by Physicists

"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Thing, body, matter are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction"

Milton R. Sapirstein, Physicist

"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive"

James Jeans, Physicist

"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Ordinarily, pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God"

James Prescott Joule, Physicist

"Well, I didn't actually see the Matrix, but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

"The idea is, if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself"

Roger Penrose, Physicist

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