I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
We can't help it. Life looks for life.
Politics is far more complicated than physics.
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say. . . something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.
I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant. . . negation of previous beliefs, and so. . . the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.
I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.
One can only learn by teaching.
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.
No, this trick won't work. . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.
Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals