#physics

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#only #physics #rest #science #stamp

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#college #elected #fellowship #i #physics

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. ↗

— Edward Teller

#physicists #physics #simple

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#during #engineering #felt #get #glamorous

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time. ↗

— James Cronin

#chicago #course #developing #field #given

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #both #engineering #large #now

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong. ↗

— Lee Smolin

#string-theory #wrong #science

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#belief #metaphysics #reincarnation #religion #spirituality

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humour #physics #science #space #science