Quotes about physics
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“Einstein was just a genius of theoretical physics. If you introduced him to biology or chemistry, he would look like a fish trying to climb a tree.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Tree, Fish

“To love with all your heart is forcing yourself to go beyond the physical attributes and focus on something much bigger.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Heart, Love

“Truly God is the best of creators. He designed my physical face with so much care and a little touch of makeup in the form of a beard and mustaches.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“Whenever you become separated from God, you must think about it in the spiritual way, and not on a physical level.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Thinking, Way

“Body and spirit have never blended.
Never in physical action have I ever found the chilling satisfaction of words.”

Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) Japanese author

[At the movie's ending, speaking to the soldiers]
Final address (1970)

“The time when physically nothing is happening is equally important.”

Helmut Lang (artist) (1956) Austrian artist and fashion designer

Nick Compton, Wallpaper* January 2017, p. 134

Time

“... like most physicists, I really enjoy talking about physics.”

Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972) American-Canadian physicist

[A Conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed: The Power of Principles, Physics Revealed (Part I), April 2, 2021, Ideas Roadshow, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_iJRY6nU4] (quote at 2:47 of 57:39)

“Whether in physics and mathematics or in the humanities, when something really finally works, it has a certain perfection to it, a feeling of inevitability, like it was so completely obvious all along, and it couldn't be any other way.”

Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972) American-Canadian physicist

[#qotd #quote of the day #IASIdeas, twitter.com, 12 July 2018, https://twitter.com/the_ias/status/1017439929985634304?lang=en] (9:05 AM)

Perfection, Mathematics, Way, Feeling

“Now I think hydrodynamics is to be the root of all physical science, and is at present second to none in the beauty of its mathematics.”

William Thomson (1824–1907) British physicist and engineer

Source: In a letter addressed to George Stokes dated December 20, 1857, as quoted in Fluid Mechanics in the Next Century https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3101925 (1996), by Mohamed Gad-el-Hak and Mihir Sen.

Beauty, Thinking, Mathematics, Science

“In physics, energy has a very precise definition: it is what characterises something changing in the world surrounding us. [...] Counting energy is therefore nothing else than counting how much the world has changed.”

Jean-Marc Jancovici (1962) French engineer and energy climate specialist

Source: "Energy: basic facts for an informed debate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAMA4mT0z0, 2012.

World, Change

“We will give two practical Courses of self-training, mental and physical, with which we can fit ourselves to become successful pioneers for the new age.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII

Success, Age, Training

“To the oft-repeated question "If Jesus resurrected His physical body why is He not visible here among us?" we would say that Jesus overcame the sins that caused our original fall from the perfect body of the Adamic man to the diseased and dying body in which the race is now existing.”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Mysteries Of John (1946)

Perfection, Disease, Question

“Surely the human race is at last reaching the stage of adulthood — that adulthood of character which does not depend upon physical age at all — so that it is deliberately embracing responsibility for its own development and government, and trying to face up to the causes of its failures?”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII

Dependency, Adulthood, Age, Failure

“As a nation, we have the moral obligation to protect our children from sexual abuse. We need to love, nurture and protect these children ensuring that this protection is both emotional and physical.”

Neo Masisi (1962) first lady of Botswana

Source: Neo Masisi https://www.unicef.org/botswana/media/191/file/E-Seng-Mo-Ngwaneng-Report-2019.pdf Campaign Brief, Botswana Country Office: Interim Update (17 January 2019) Retrieved 5 November 2021.

Children, Love

“Whatever you identify with is what you are. If you identify with the physical body, then to all intents and purposes you are the physical body. That traps the Self in the physical plane and causes all the illness — stomach aches, ulcers, and all the rest, of the physical body.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997) p. 606

“There was something wonderful about being able to look up and see what that physical representation was going to look like. It is one of the things that I miss, now that we’re in a much more digital age.”

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (1960) American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist and actor

Source: ‘Phineas and Ferb’ Creators Discuss ‘Candace Against the Universe’ — and the Possibility of More Sequels https://decider.com/2020/08/28/dan-povenmire-jeff-marsh-phineas-and-ferb-ending/ (August 28, 2020)

Age

“Plato’s metaphysics grew out of that of Parmenides, together with a strong feel for Heraclitus’s account of the physical world as a world of incessant change. His ethics were deeply inspired by Socrates, but his views on the soul also pick up on motifs that emerge in Pythagoras.”

Catherine Rowett (1956) Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (born 1956)

Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 4 : Reality and appearance: more adventures in metaphysics

Soul, Strong, World, Change

“It is important that we continue to practice good hand hygiene and physical distancing when necessary (due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic). Remember, if experiencing symptoms, stay at home and contact the Saba Health Care Foundation at telephone number 416-3288 to receive further instructions.”

Jonathan G. A. Johnson (1976) Island Governor of Saba since 2008.

Source: Jonathan G. A. Johnson (2021) cited in: " New positive COVID-19 case registered in Saba https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/new-positive-covid-19-case-registered-in-saba" in The Daily Herald, 4 May 2021.

Home, Health

“Art with layers inspires me – not only physical paint layers, but layered conceptual meanings.”

John Jude Palencar (1957) American artist

Painting, Art

“The physical and the virtual will seamlessly meld before our very eyes creating an augmented life called spatial reality.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Reality, Life

“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”

Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze

Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)

“My physics has been extremely mainstream, ... It's not true that I'm some sort of a [radical thinker], not at all.”

Leonard Susskind (1940) American physicist

Source: During an interview with Y Combinator - Published on Dec 6, 2018.

“If you ask a Christian or a Moslem about their God, they say their God is good and benevolent. They say their God has no physical form. Why don’t you people have such a God?”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer

Source: Viduthalai – 25-12-1958)(also https://myvoice.opindia.com/2021/09/why-ev-ramasamy-doesnt-deserve-to-be-celebrated/

God, People

“Because physical theories typically predict numerical values, an improvement in experimental precision reduces the tolerance range and hence increases corroborability. In most psychological research, improved power of a statistical design leads to a prior probability approaching ½ of finding a significant difference in the theoretically predicted direction. Hence the corroboration yielded by "success" is very weak, and becomes weaker with increased precision. "Statistical significance" plays a logical role in psychology precisely the reverse of its role in physics. This problem is worsened by certain unhealthy tendencies prevalent among psychologists, such as a premium placed on experimental "cuteness" and a free reliance upon ad hoc explanations to avoid refutation.”

Paul E. Meehl (1920–2003) American psychologist

Source: [Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox, Philosophy of Science, 34, 2, 1967, 103–115, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/288135]

Problem, Success

“We often think that yoga is only about the combination of postures, breathing, and meditation, but it results in a lot of internal work, too. That work has led me to understand my own liberation — not just of my physical body, but of my emotional and spiritual bodies. A huge part of that has been recognizing that I am a sexual being, and that's not something that I need to apologize for or be ashamed of.”

Jessamyn Stanley (1987) American yoga teacher and author

Source: Jessamyn Stanley's Road To Sexual Liberation, Michelle Toglia, July 8, 2020, 2020 https://www.bustle.com/wellness/jessamyn-stanley-sexual-liberation,

Understanding, Thinking, Parting

“This is called the World Breath or ‘Seven’ Breath, and was much practised by the ancient Egyptians who were adepts at physical and physiological culture. Seven, as you know, plays an important part in the plan of the Universe which affects tnis Earth, as for instance, the 7 planets, 7 colours of the spectrum, 7 notes of music, 7 days of the week, etc. If we practise the Seven Breath every morning on awakening, we will tune ourselves in to the forces of growth and progress and derive great benefit and strength from so doing, provided we neither strain nor jerk.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Universe, World, Music, Jerk

“Correct breathing also performs a constant massage of the internal organs by raising them up and down, thus curing constipation when it is caused by faulty insufficient breathing (as is often the case) which holds the muscles of the abdomen in a static position. Therefore the first thing to do is to make sure that you know how to breathe from the physical standpoint, and how to control the muscle of the diaphragm. This muscle forms the dividing line between the chest and the stomach just below the ribs. Place the fingers upon the diaphragm muscle just below the ribs and under the centre breast bone. In this arched hollow lies the muscle upon which correct breathing depends. Take a slow breath, drawing the muscle upwards and inwards, following its movement with the fingers, fill the lungs with air right up to the collarbones. Then breathe out slowly whilst tucking the diaphragm still further inwards and upwards!”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Drawing, Dependency

“It is no exaggeration to say that if even five minutes a day were spent in mental and physical breath control, a person’s whole life would be made anew. For, besides the physical atoms of the air, such as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, there are literally thousands of different radiations playing through the atmosphere, some of them infinitely subtle and powerful, which come from planets far outside our solar system! These can, and should, be drawn upon by us in correct breathing, specialized through our endocrine glands, and used in our most vital thinking and creative activities.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Personality, Thinking, Life

“When I'm drinking my Bonaparte shandy
eating more than enough apple pies
will I glance at my screen
and see real human beings
starve to death right in front of my eyes?
Nothing old, nothing new, nothing ventured,
nothing gained, nothing stillborn or lost,
nothing further than proof, nothing wilder than youth,
nothing older than time, nothing sweeter than wine,
nothing physically recklessly hopelessly blind,
nothing I couldn't say
Nothing. Why? 'Cos today nothing rhymed”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Nothing Rhymed" (song) Gilbert O'Sullivan. A live performance. On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtoefxZGR6U Gilbert O'Sullivan. A performance with orchestra, c.2017. On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SWTPDPriA Gilbert O'Sullivan. Observations about "Nothing Rhymed", fifty years on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BlxtcH39Q (On YouTube) (+ A cover version by Franklin Brown on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6kuZyk5WJ8 (+ A cover version by Colleen Coughlan on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcqndbjOPTs (+ A cover version by Conor McCauley on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nAb0-7J9d4 (+ A cover version by The Ocelots on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCDFiRaRA0 (+ Guitar instrumental by Phil McGarrick) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmzFaUC1rDI Song lyrics Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Nothing Rhymed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGE6gzkMAfw (song on YouTube)

Youth, Wine, Drink, Time

“Nature shouldn’t be able to do this, Sunday thought. It shouldn’t be able to produce something that resembled the work of directed intelligence, something artful, when the only factors involved were unthinking physics and obscene, spendthrift quantities of time. Time to lay down the sediments, in deluge after deluge, entire epochs in the impossibly distant past when Mars had been both warm and wet, a world deluded into thinking it had a future. Time for cosmic happenstance to hurl a fist from the sky, punching down through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling through these carefully superimposed layers, drilling the geological chapters like a bullet through a book. And then yesterday more time—countless millions of years—for wind and dust to work their callous handiwork, scouring and abrading, wearing the exposed layers back at subtly different rates depending on hardness and chemistry, util these deliberate-looking right-angled steps and contours began to assume grand and imperial solidity, rising from the depths like the stairways of the gods.
Awe-inspiring, yesterday. Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What was she, ultimately, but the end product of physics and matter? And what was her art but the product of physics and matter working on itself?”

Alastair Reynolds book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 17 (pp. 292-293)

Dependency, God, Books, World

“1. Strive to be a leader of character, competence, and courage.
2. Lead from the front. Say, "Follow me!" and then lead the way.
3. Stay in top physical shape- physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
4. Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
5. Delegate responsibility to your subordinates and let them do their jobs. You can't do a good job if you don't have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.
6. Anticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don't wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.
7. Remain humble. Don't worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.
8. Take a moment of self-reflection. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and ask yourself if you did your best.
9. True satisfaction comes from getting the job done. The key to a successful leader is to earn respect- not because of rank or position, but because you are a leader of character.
10. Hang Tough!

Never, ever give up.”

Dick Winters (1918–2011) American military personnel

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (2006)
Source: Leadership at the Point of the Bayonet: Ten Principles for Success, p. 293

Night, People, Way, Imagination

“Mountain climbing is an analogue of the research process in theoretical physics. In working on a problem in physics one is never assured of a solution, because there are many false leads and pitfalls. Likewise in climbing there is no certainty of attaining the summit; the route is often unknown, or sometimes one attains a false summit. But the important point is that if you reach the top, the view is enormous. There is no comparison between what you see from just below the summit and what you can see from the top. Similarly with finally solving an important problem in physics the view you get is enormous.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 272

Mountain, Falseness, Problem

“Most physicists enjoy the outdoors. They are mushroom gatherers, bird watchers, hikers, amateur mountaineers whose idea of weekend relaxation is to climb a mountain. Several physics summer schools and research centers are located in or near mountainous areas. I have not seen such uniform recreational impulses in other professions, an observation which prompts speculation on the connection between the nature of inquiry in physics and mountain climbing.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 271

Mountain, Idea, Nature, Bird

“Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: [Lorde, Audre, A Burst of Light : Living with Cancer, A burst of light : essays, 125, Firebrand Books, 1988, 0932379400]

“Yoga does not consist in sitting cross-legged for six hours or stopping the beatings of the heart or getting oneself buried underneath the ground for a week or a month. These are all physical feats only.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

What Is Actual Yoga
Autobiography of Swami Sivananda (1958)

Heart

“All of it is physics, though, whether you are studying starlings or quarks.”

Alastair Reynolds (1966) British novelist and astronomer

A Murmuration (p. 238)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)

Study

“I’m not physically a super expressive person. I think I’m pretty put-together.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"Let Fala Chen Reintroduce Herself" in Elle https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a37359800/fala-chen-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-interview/ (25 August 2021)

Personality, Thinking

“Continuous expansion is a fundamental tenet of economics. Therefore one of the fundamentals of the universe itself. Because everything is economics. Physics is cosmic economics, biology is cellular economics, the humanities are social economics, psychology is mental economics, and so on.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

His listeners nodded unhappily.
“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)

Universe

“I think anyone who at 26 is going to attempt to be a professional ballerina is going to physically kill themselves. Baths are what I looked forward to, every single night! And a glass of wine!”

Mila Kunis (1983) American actress

"An Interview With The Black Swan — Mila Kunis" https://medium.com/hope-lies-at-24-frames-per-second/an-interview-with-the-black-swan-mila-kunis-c365cb3c33e0 (11 May 2011)

Night, Thinking, Wine

“Truly the eye was made to cast a lineament, a conducting wire between the most heterogeneous things. Such a wire, of maximum ductility, should allow us to understand, in a minimum of time, the relationship which connect, without possible discharge of continuity, innumerable physical and mental structures.... the key (of the mental prison, ed.) lies in a free unlimited pay of analogies....”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Quote of Breton, from Introduction to the exhibition of Gorky's first show', Julien Levy Gallery', March 1945; as quoted in Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof, ed. by Matthew Spender, Ridinghouse, London, 2009, p. 258
after 1930

Understanding, Time

“Doing good to others will make you feel like a better person: physically, psychologically and spiritually. Maybe gestures like this don't cost you anything, but for those who receive them… they have great value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Fare del bene agli altri ti farà sentire una persona migliore: fisicamente, psicologicamente e spiritualmente. Magari gesti così non ti costano nulla, ma per chi li riceve... hanno un grande valore.
Source: prevale.net

Personality, Feeling

“The past and present events in the Universe point towards the fact that the extinction of humans, or any other potential intelligent life, in this space desert is a common physical phenomenon.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Intelligence, Universe, Past, Life

“An incomprehensible metaphysics is a bizarre physics that, like other marvels, science one day will reveal.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Science

“At the core, people are creators. They can conceptualize of what does not yet exist. And they can bring it into a physical manifestation.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People

“God communicates with us not only through words, but through the phenomena of the physical world. A shooting star, a sudden impulse, or even a book with an unexpected title can carry a message from the Divine. Be open to these signs, even if you doubt or have reservations. Explore the unseen ways God speaks to us.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

God, Star, Communication, Books

“The body is the envelope of the soul, the armour for communicating with the world. It's a duty to take care of it, not only for physical well-being, but to improve the quality of life and its perception.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il corpo è l'involucro dell'anima, l'armatura per comunicare con il mondo. È un dovere prendersene cura, non solo per il benessere fisico, ma per migliorare la qualità della vita e la sua percezione.
Source: prevale.net

Soul, Communication, World, Life

“Setting boundaries with some individuals is not selfishness or weakness, but a strategy of wisdom to protect one's emotional, physical and mental health.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Stabilire dei confini con alcuni individui non è egoismo o debolezza, ma una saggia strategia per proteggere la propria salute emotiva, fisica e mentale.
Source: prevale.net

Selfishness, Health, Wisdom

“The meeting of stories, hopes and fears… the confrontation with physical limit and pain confirm that life is a gift of great value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'incontro di storie, speranze e paure... il confronto con il limite fisico e il dolore, confermano che la vita sia un dono di grande valore.
Source: prevale.net

Fear, Pain, Hope, Life

“The true pillars of a meaningful bond are not physical appearance or social position, but emotional attunement and mutual happiness.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I veri pilastri di un legame significativo non sono l'aspetto fisico o la posizione sociale, ma la sintonia emotiva e la felicità reciproca.
Source: prevale.net

Happiness, Appearance

“True love is manifested in small gestures: presence, listening and physical contact transmit human warmth.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero amore si manifesta nei piccoli gesti: la presenza, l'ascolto e il contatto fisico trasmettono calore umano.
Source: prevale.net

Love

“A woman’s true charm and strength lie not only in her physical beauty, but above all in her personality, her kindness and her smile.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero fascino e la vera forza di una donna non risiedono solo nella sua bellezza fisica, ma soprattutto nella sua personalità, nella sua gentilezza e nel suo sorriso.
Source: prevale.net

Smile, Beauty, Personality, Lie

“Authentic love respects and values the other person, separating the physical desire from the will for care and presence.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'amore autentico rispetta e valorizza l'altra persona, separando il desiderio fisico dalla volontà di cura e presenza.
Source: prevale.net

Personality, Love

“Beauty doesn't stop at the physical appearance, but is reflected in the way of communicating, in empathy and in respect towards others.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La bellezza non si ferma all'aspetto fisico, ma si riflette nel modo di comunicare, nell'empatia e nel rispetto verso gli altri.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty, Communication, Appearance, Way

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Quotes about physics
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