quotations about physics
The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them.
STEPHEN HAWKING
Black Holes and Baby Universes
In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there.
LISA RANDALL
Discover Magazine, July 2006
Mathematical physics represents the purest image that the view of nature may generate in the human mind; this image presents all the character of the product of art; it begets some unity, it is true and has the quality of sublimity; this image is to physical nature what music is to the thousand noises of which the air is full.
THEOPHILE DE DONDER
Autobiography
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy had as much right to opinion as Fermi.
LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ
attributed, The Politics of Pure Science