Physics Quotes:

“Einstein, stop telling God what to do!” (Niels Bohr)

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox; now we have some hope of making progress.” (Niels Bohr)

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” (Albert Einstein)

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.” (Albert Einstein)

“God does not play dice.” (Albert Einstein)

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” (Albert Einstein)

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.” Niels Bohr (to a young physicist)

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.” Marie Curie

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” Marie Curie

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” Ernest Rutherford

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.” Ernest Rutherford

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” Edwin Hubble

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

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

“I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.” Richard Feynman

“There is no harm in doubt and skepticism; for it is through these that new discoveries are made.” Richard Feynman

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” Isaac Newton

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.” Niels Bohr

“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” Niels Bohr

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planck

“Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!” (To PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity) Michael Faraday