Physics Formula Quotes

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far. ~ William S. Burroughs

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form. ~ John Archibald Wheeler

When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national priority. But I have also come to realize that NASA had it easy. Rockets conform to the unchanging laws of physics. We know where the moon will be at a given time; we know precisely how fast a spacecraft will enter or exist the earth's orbit. If we get the equations right, the rocket will land where it is supposed to--always. Human beings are more complex than that. A recovering drug addict does not behave as predictably as a rocket in orbit. We don't have a formula for persuading a sixteen-year-old not to drop out of school. But we do have a powerful tool: We know that people seek to make themselves better off, however they may define that. Our best hope for improving the human condition is to understand why we act the way we do and then plan accordingly. Programs, organizations, and systems work better when they get the incentives right. It is like rowing downstream. ~ Charles Wheelan

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness. ~ Stanislav Grof

Another time somebody gave a talk about poetry. He talked about the structure of the poem and the emotions that come with it; he divided everything up into certain kinds of classes. In the discussion that came afterwards, he said, "Isn't that the same as in mathematics, Dr. Eisenhart?" Dr. Eisenhart was the dean of the graduate school and a great professor of mathematics. He was also very clever. He said, "I'd like to know what Dick Feynman thinks about it in reference to theoretical physics." He was always putting me on in this kind of situation. I got up and said, "Yes, it's very closely related. In theoretical physics, the analog of the word is the mathematical formula, the analog of the structure of the poem is the interrelationship of the theoretical bling-bling with the so-andso"–and I went through the whole thing, making a perfect analogy. The speaker's eyes were _beaming_ with happiness. Then I said, "It seems to me that no matter _what_ you say about poetry, I could find a way of making up an analog with _any_ subject, just as I did for theoretical physics. I don't consider such analogs meaningful. ~ Richard P. Feynman

This "Hawking temperature" of a black hole and its "Hawking radiation" (as they came to be called) were truly radical - perhaps the most radical theoretical physics discovery in the second half of the twentieth century. They opened our eyes to profound connections between general relativity (black holes), thermodynamics (the physics of heat) and quantum physics (the creation of particles where before there were none). For example, they led Stephen to prove that a black hole has entropy, which means that somewhere inside or around the black hole there is enormous randomness. He deduced that the amount of entropy (the logarithm of the hole's amount of randomness) is proportional to the hole's surface area. His formula for the entropy is engraved on Stephen's memorial stone at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, where he worked.
For the past forty-five years, Stephen and hundreds of other physicists have struggled to understand the precise nature of a black hole's randomness. It is a question that keeps on generating new insights about the marriage of quantum theory with general relativity - that is, about the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity. ~ Stephen Hawking

can you imagine a world without god and science? ~ Subodh Kumar

[Q]uantum physics is not replaced by another sort of physics at large scales. It actually gives rise to classical physics. Our everyday, commonsense reality is, in this view, simply what quantum mechanics looks like when you're six feet tall. ~ Philip Ball

We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One. ~ Richard Branson

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. ~ Peter Debye

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past. ~ Sam Bird

There seems to be a formula for life, formula devised and perfected over centuries of labour by many anonymous brains. Like all formulas this formula provided a solution too, solutions for real-world problems.
Birth→education→work→earn→marry→reproduce→indoctrinate your child with same formula→die = survival ~ J. Yuvanesh

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

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. ~ Ernest Rutherford

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics. ~ Al Gore

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop. ~ Paul Gilding

Politics is more difficult than physics. ~ Albert Einstein

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula. ~ Jim Rohn

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. ~ Craig Ferguson

Physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical. ~ David Bentley Hart

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. ~ Albert Einstein

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India. ~ Vandana Shiva

Quantum physics shows us the universe as a dynamic web of connection. ~ Robert Moss

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. ~ Norwood Russell Hanson

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula. ~ Yahoo Serious

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. ~ John Cameron

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics. ~ Richard Dawkins

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical. ~ Bruce H. Lipton

Medical physics is an applied area of physics. ~ John Cameron

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. ~ Peter Greenaway

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics. ~ Harriet Lerner

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. ~ Taner Edis

It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined. Opinions vary on the answer..Bertrand Russell acknowledged..'Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little.' ..Mathematics may be indispensable to physics, but it obviously does not constitute physics. ~ Etienne Klein

From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1. ~ Mario Andretti

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. ~ Murray Walker

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. ~ Erwin Schrodinger

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art. ~ Maggie Nelson

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable. ~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird. ~ Rachel Maddow

The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights on its orbicular architecture switched on, the circuit would radiate like a constellation of stars ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield. ~ Bill McKibben

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. ~ Frank Wilczek

My wife is used to Formula One, and she understands the life. ~ Romain Grosjean

In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of these characters in our cosmic drama underlies all biological and chemical phenomena. Hence everything fundamental and familiar to us earthlings begins with, and rests upon, the laws of physics. When we apply these laws to astronomical settings, we deal with physics writ large, which we call astrophysics. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature
- from Moral Materialism ~ Ashish Dalela

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. ~ Elon Musk

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level, ~ Rhonda Byrne

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. ~ Richard Feynman

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level. ~ Amit Goswami

If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?! ~ Frank J. Tipler

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics. ~ Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made. ~ Robert Graves

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics. ~ Arthur D. Levinson

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics. ~ Ivar Giaever

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems ... there's no law of physics preventing them. ~ Michio Kaku

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. ~ Nikola Tesla

I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe. ~ Danica Patrick

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. ~ Bill Griffith

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. ~ Marianne Williamson

One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics. ~ David Mermin

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. ~ Thomas Huxley

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day. ~ Sandy Koufax

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working. ~ Chris Daughtry

I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics. ~ Michio Kaku

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you. ~ George Shearing

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success. ~ Erwin W. Lutzer

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make. ~ Javier Bardem

The physicists who look at their objects within their limitations teach physics; those who see the limitations they place around their objects teach "physics." For them physics is a poiesis. ~ James P. Carse

I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work. ~ Ranbir Kapoor

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics. ~ Jim Butcher

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. ~ Walter Kohn

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. ~ Erwin Schrodinger

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events. ~ Atul Gawande

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. ~ Stephen Hawking

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill,
every bee knows the formula of its beehive.
They know it in their own way, not in our way.
Only humankind does not know its own formula. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ~ Daniel Bernoulli

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe - or that they were applicable to every time in its history. ~ Michael Brooks

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are. ~ James Hansen

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 [racecar] driver. ~ Rupert Grint

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One. ~ Barry Sheene

Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn't take something fascinating and make it boring. Rather, it helps us see more clearly, adding to the beauty and wonder of the world around us. ~ Max Tegmark

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. ~ James D. Watson

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it. ~ Sylvia Plath

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. ~ Pierre Duhem

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith) ~ Steven Moffat

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it. ~ Pascual Jordan

The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. ~ Abby Sunderland

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic. ~ Charles Stross

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics. ~ Lisa Randall

I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same. ~ Walter Lewin

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture. ~ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. ~ Fritjof Capra

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing. ~ Haim Harari

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled. ~ Steven Weinberg

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. ~ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Physics is much too hard for physicists. ~ David Hilbert

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. ~ Richard Feynman

My formula for happiness is to have no formula for happiness. ~ Marty Rubin

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit. ~ Mark Webber