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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Walter Isaacson

In most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

Arthur Eddington

Unfortunately in this book of nature the biologists fare badly. Every expression of life takes time. Nothing that is characteristic of life can manifest itself at an instant. Murder is a prerequisite for the absorption of biology into physics as expressed in these traditional concepts.

Alfred North Whitehead

Those few things having been considered, the whole matter is reduced to pure geometry, which is the one aim of physics and mechanics.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Between physics and philosophy there lies a debatable territory which I shall call scientific epistemology.

Arthur Eddington

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

The Quest to understand string theory may well prove to be a central theme in physics of the twenty-first century. To understand this quest in mathematical terms and reap the full fruits, it will be necessary to develop QFT as a mathematical subject.

A wise physician will not give physic, but upon necessity, and first try medicinal diet, before he proceed to medicinal cure.

Arnoldus Arlenius

Modern theory did not arise from revolutionary ideas which have been, so to speak, introduced into the exact sciences from without. On the contrary, they have forced their way into research which was attempting consistently to carry out the program of classical physics — they arise out of its very nature.

Robert A. Heinlein

The facts and objects of the various branches of Science are fundamentally the same kind. For all branches are part of the unified Science, of Physics.

In physics... our problem consists in the co-ordination of our experience of the external world.

A scorner of physic once said that nature and disease may be compared to two men fighting, the doctor to a blind man with a club, who strikes into the melee, sometimes hitting the disease, and sometimes hitting nature.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Nature is far more wonderful and unconventional than anything we can evolve from our inner consciousness. The most far-reaching generalizations which may influence philosophy as well as revolutionize physics, may be suggested, nay, forced on the mind by the discovery of some trivial phenomenon.

Modern Physics impresses us particularly with the truth of the old doctrine which teaches that there are realities existing apart from our sense-perceptions, and that there are problems and conflicts where these realities are of greater value for us than the richest treasures of the world of experience.

In physic, the wisest can do but little, and the ignorant can only do worse than nothing.

Getting into a new field of physics is like reading a Russian novel. There are a lot of names to cope with, and at first you wonder who's who.

Kenneth W. Ford

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.

If physic do not work, prepare for the kirk.

Up to the time of the foundation of the Institute of Physics, the physicists had hardly been recognized as a member of one of the professions.

So right away I found out something about biology: it was very easy to find a question that was very interesting, and that nobody knew the answer to. In physics you had to go a little deeper before you could find an interesting question that people didn't know.

Richard Feynman

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

The development of physics incites a continual struggle between "nature that does not tire of providing" and reason that does not wish "to tire of conceiving."

Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Francis Quarles

Hypothesis Of Molecular Vortices. In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics, the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

William John Macquorn Rankine