Quotes and Sayings about Physics

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Sheldon: "Hey, look, I found my missing neutrino."
Howard: "Oh good, we can take it off the milk carton..."

Physics answers the question, "What is the nature of the universe?" Geology answers the question, "What'd I just trip over?"

Physics is the attempt of humanity to understand the world. However it is a real good attempt.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

I need physics more than friends.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.