Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics."
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured."
Dan Brown
Author
"Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria"
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Physics, beware of metaphysics."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that."
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"Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it."
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"The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory."
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"If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science."
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"I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
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"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it."
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"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."
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"As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself."
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"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
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"One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
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"There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work."
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"Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics."
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"Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics."
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"Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena."
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"There is no authority who decides what is a good idea."
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"If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week."
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"So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible."
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"I like physics, but I love cartoons."
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"It is because the method of physics does not satisfy the comprehension that we have to go on further."
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"Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap."
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"There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics."
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