Quotes by Physicists - Page 2

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
G. C. Lichtenberg
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Pascal
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.
Stephen Hawking
Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new not because it has never been there before but because it has changed in quality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing at whatever cost must be attained.
Marie Curie
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Blaise Pascal
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
G. C. Lichtenberg
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Pascal
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
Blaise Pascal
Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal
Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
Antoine Bret
Love is a spendthrift leaves its arithmetic at home is always 'in the red'.
Paul Scherer
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
Pascal
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.
Sir Arthur Eddington
The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Pascal
If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened half indifferent they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.
Pascal
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without passion without business without entertainment without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty insufficient dependent ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom gloom sorrow chagrin resentment and despair.
Blaise Pascal
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.
Blaise Pascal
There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.
Percy W. Bridgman
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein