#physics

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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

— James Rainwater

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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. ↗

— Sally Ride

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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

#changed #composer #continued #did #half

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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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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