Science Quotes

"Physics is the attempt to understand the world around us."

"Nature is written in the language of mathematics."

"The paradoxes of quantum mechanics are not defects but features."

"Science progresses by creative imagination constrained by observed facts."

"We are still in the act of formulating the laws of physics."

"What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses."

"Science deals with fragments of the whole, but the whole is what gives them meaning."

"The separation between subject and object is not always clear in physics."

"The universe is far too complicated to be understood through equations alone."

"One cannot separate the observer from the observed in quantum mechanics."

"Mathematics is the language in which nature addresses us, but we are slow to learn the grammar."

"The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

"Science is a fascinating study. It's a pity that it is wasted on scientists."

"It is important for the very existence of science that minds exist which are willing to do what can be done."

"The purpose of physics is to find the rules by which nature operates under any circumstances."

"The beautiful thing about science is that it is self-correcting."

"A great scientist must have the imagination to dream and the discipline to verify."

"The heart of science is not just knowledge, but wonder."

"The symmetries of nature are not accident but consequences of unknown principles."

"Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language."

"Physics concerns what we can say about nature."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"The task of theoretical physics is to understand the nature of reality."

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly disturbed you, you haven't understood it yet."

"Atoms are young worlds."

"The study of physics is no longer the foundation upon which all science is built."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"It is the privilege of theoretical physics to deal only with electrons and nuclei."

"Energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared."