Physics Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old physics quotes, physics sayings, and physics proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever. Ben Stein
Objects moving in a circle are under the influence of changing force. Melody Mayer
If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live. John Gribbin
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape. Sheri Reynolds
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Albert Einstein
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. Bertrand Russell
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. Elon Musk
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues. Lene
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions. Stephen Hawking
Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the earth Archimedes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself nature does it for you. Frank Wilczek
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. Mark Z. Danielewski
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves. Felix Alba-Juez
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. James Joseph Sylvester
Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. Brian Greene
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. Werner Heisenberg
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. Niels Bohr