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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. ↗

— James Rainwater

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I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. ↗

— Terry Riley

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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