"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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"What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant."
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"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks"
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"The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science."
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"I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics."
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"The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics."
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"Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything."
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"Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?""
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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
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"So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics."
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"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."
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"Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine."
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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality"
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"I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics."
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"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
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