I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and read more

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of read more

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful read more

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past
centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him read more

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot read more

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential read more

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no read more

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence
from matter.