#physic

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#physicists #humor

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #physics #science #stars #age

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #brain

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#uncertainty #law

Change happens very slow and very sudden. ↗

— Dorothy Bryant

#feminist #metaphysics #science-fiction #change

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #love

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#life

-But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Earnest? -But your name is Earnest. -Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? ... -Ah! That is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts or real life, as we know them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#love-scenes #movies #physical-exertion #love