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• The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

  Christopher Pike

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• My students know I have a life, they know I’ve written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would’ve told them anyway!

  Marya Hornbacher

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  Tags in Detail, Physics

• What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

  Scarlett Thomas

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• As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn’t make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  Nicholas Stern

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• Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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  Physics is like s*x: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

  Richard P. Feynman

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• I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

  Debi Thomas

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• Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

  David Hilbert

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• I was always good at math and science and physics.

  Daniel J. Evans

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• Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

  Dave Barry

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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.

  Freeman Dyson

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  Tags in Physics, Century, Accepted

• I’ve been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it’s that once you hit a few shots, you’ll become addicted.

  Fred Durst

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• The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

  Paul Dirac

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• When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

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• Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

  Steve Allen

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

  Craig Ferguson

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• 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

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• I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

  Sidney Altman

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• Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

  Sidney Altman

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• Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.

  Geoff Downes

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  Tags in Physics, Compilation