"I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics."
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"I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma."
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"How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far."
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"I'm fascinated with quantum physics."
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"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth."
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"In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities."
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"As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect."
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"Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics."
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"As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!"
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"We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation."
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"I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]"
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"Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics."
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"Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born"
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"The day I went into physics class it was death."
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"Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost"
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"Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence."
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"The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science."
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"American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work."
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"It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology."
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"I went to Princeton specifically to study physics."
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