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• Physics has the cutest words.

  Sherry Stringfield

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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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• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  Charles Edison

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  Tags in Natural, Physics

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

  Edward Teller

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• That’s absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn’t an accident of the laws of physics. There’s a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

  Robert Lanza

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• If you miss one day in physics, that’s it.

  Robert Iler

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• 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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  Tags in Psychology, Physics

• Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

  Walther Bothe

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• There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don’t involve the use of a laser.

  Eric Allin Cornell

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• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  Aaron Klug

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• Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

  Ernst Mach

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• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

  Eugene Wigner

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  Tags in Physics, Complex, Physicist, Understands

• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  A. N. Wilson

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• I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

  John Cameron

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• It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

  Niels Bohr

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• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  Arthur Eddington

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• Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

  John Cameron

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• Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

  John Cameron

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