Physicists and their quotes

 A Physicist is a person who comes across with great ability to see this world in a scientific manner. What he thinks and says about the physical and non-physical world after being influenced by physics and its laws, becomes a philosophy. There are many physicists who spoke on Human beings, Love, Life, Society, Nature, Universe, and even on their own Theories and Inventions. Let see some of them and their quotes blow-

1. Prof. Albert Einstien

Albert Einstien was a german theoretical physicist and philosopher. He is called the father of modern Physics. His two theories, Special Theory Of Relativity And General Theory Of Relativity changed the angle of physicists to see the world. And his work on Quantum Physics was appreciatable. Some thoughts of this genius-

Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

― Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

― Albert Einstein

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

― Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

― Albert Einstein

“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

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

― Albert Einstein

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

― Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

― Albert Einstein

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

― Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

― Albert Einstein

“A question sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the other crazy.”

― Albert Einstein

2. Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who contributed to the Fundamentals Of Quantum Physics and The Wave Theory. He is famous for his equation in Quantum Physics known as Schrödinger's Equation. His most famous objection was a thought experiment in 1935 that later became known as Schrödinger’s cat. Let see some quotes of this great physicist-

Quotes

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

 “If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

“The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.”

―Erwin Schrödinger

3. Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman ForMemRS was an American theoretical physicist, contributed to creating new quantum electrodynamics by introducing Feynman diagrams: graphic representations of various interactions between different particles. Feynman remade quantum electrodynamics—the theory of the interaction between light and matter—and thus altered the way science understands the nature of waves and particles. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for this work.

Quotes

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”

―Richard Feynman

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

―Richard Feynman

“Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.”

―Richard Feynman

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

― Richard P. Feynman

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

― Richard P. Feynman

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”

― Richard Feynman

“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”

― Richard P. Feynman

“I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

― Richard Feynman

“I think that I can safely say that nobody can understand quantum mechanics.” 

― Richard Feynman

“The "Paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be”.

― Richard Feynman

4.Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. 

Quotes

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

― Paul Dirac

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

― Paul Dirac

In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

― Paul Dirac

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

― Paul Dirac

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

― Paul Dirac

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

― Paul Dirac

5. Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. In February 1927, the young. Werner Heisenberg developed a key piece of quantum theory, the uncertainty principle, with profound implications. 

Quotes

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

― Werner Heisenberg

Not only is the universe stranger than we think, but it is also stranger than we can think.

― Werner Heisenberg

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

― Werner Heisenberg

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

― Werner Heisenberg

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

― Werner Heisenberg

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

― Werner Heisenberg

Looking at something changes it.

― Werner Heisenberg

Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this, I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.

― Werner Heisenberg

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

― Werner Heisenberg

"Uncertainty" is not "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain.

― Werner Heisenberg