Quotes on Science Physics

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

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

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

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.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.