Quotes About The Laws Of Physics

#1. ... The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Brian Greene

#2. If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#3. In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

Stephen Hawking

#4. God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Stephen Hawking

#5. The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Kevin Kelly

#6. One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking

#7. That Hellboy gun of Yours? It's not scientifically possible. It flaunts the laws of physics like a teenager on Rumspringa...

Michael R. Underwood

#8. When you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology. Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#9. What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Nikola Tesla

#10. Discovering the laws of physics is like trying to put together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. We

Richard Feynman

#11. To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

David Deutsch

#12. The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

Brian Greene

#13. The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

Ralph Merkle

#14. Such thinking is sheer speculation, but the laws of physics allow for the possibility of opening a hole in space by concentrating enough energy at a single point, until we access the space-time foam and wormholes emerge connecting our universe to a baby universe.

Michio Kaku

#15. There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Alan Moore

#16. Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Robert Lanza

#17. Everyone complains about the laws of physics, but no one does anything about them.

Anonymous

#18. The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.

Charles Eisenstein

#20. The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know!

Richard Feynman

#21. We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design ... The universe must have a purpose.

Paul Davies

#23. To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

Michio Kaku

#24. The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Alfred Harker

#25. In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#26. The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

Seanan McGuire

#27. The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being.

John P. Wheeler III

#28. But against all the odds, against even the laws of physics and logic, we did.

C.D. Reiss

#29. The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece

Dan Brown

#30. Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Brian Greene

#31. American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

Gore Vidal

#32. Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

Stephen Hawking

#33. The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what's happening in the atmosphere, not by what is happening in the artificial world of Kyoto.

Ross McKitrick

#34. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

Peter Watts

#35. Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing.

James S.A. Corey

#36. It has been explained in chapter 1 that the laws of physics, as we know them, are statistical laws.2 They have a lot to do with the natural tendency of things to go over into disorder.

Erwin Schrodinger

#37. Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

James Hansen

#38. There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe - or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Michael Brooks

#39. Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere ... they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

Victor J. Stenger

#40. We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

Roger Penrose

#41. Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Paul Davies

#42. There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Richard P. Feynman

#43. It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Albert Einstein

#44. Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

Jonathan Haidt

#45. When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

Paul Davies

#46. As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.

W. H. Auden

#47. I've never been in a single accident - basic precognition takes care of that - and the cops all know my car well enough to leave me alone when I'm bending the laws of physics and traffic to get somewhere.

Lilith Saintcrow

#48. one cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The

Allan J. McDonald

#49. Aren't you violating the building codes? Or the laws of physics?

Scott Hawkins

#50. Gately's snapped to the fact that people of a certain age and level of like life-experience believe they're immortal: college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.

David Foster Wallace

#51. That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Robert Lanza

#52. We cannot do it in this way for two reasons. First, we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance. Second, the correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore,

Richard Feynman

#53. Past, present and future CO2 emissions will have a cumulative impact on both global warming and ocean acidification. The laws of physics are non-negotiable.

Anonymous

#54. Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

Ben Stein

#55. You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.

Nancy Pickard

#56. All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics - they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not these unwelcome sensations intruding from outside.

Peter Watts

#57. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#58. The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#59. Oh, the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

Robert M. Pirsig

#60. At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

Michael Atiyeh

#61. The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Val Kovalin

#62. The laws of physics that we regard
as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything
but.

John Archibald Wheeler

#63. If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

Frank J. Tipler

#64. All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

Brian Greene

#65. Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Alan Sokal

#66. The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.

Victor J. Stenger

#67. If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Ray Comfort

#68. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should
conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it
all figured out.

Paul Davies

#69. No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

Michio Kaku

#70. Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Craig Ferguson

#71. With practice, INTJs become skilled at nodding and making responsive noises at appropriate times,
while internally wondering whether dolphins have language or thinking about how Star Wars breaks
the laws of physics.

Anna Moss

#72. Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

Richard Dawkins

#73. The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Isaac Asimov

#74. No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi

#75. The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.

Richard P. Feynman

#76. When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#77. Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Joseph Silk

#78. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking

#79. It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

Al Gore

#80. To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

David Letterman

#81. ...every physicist knows that the laws of physics can be used to build a gun or a bicycle; physics does not dictate a specific use for its laws. To that extent, it should be obvious that the laws of physics are incomplete in predicting everything that occurs in nature
- from Moral Materialism

Ashish Dalela

#82. He was not very big, mostly because he was not a very big human, and the basic principles of conservation of mass still applied whether supernatural or not. Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else.

Gail Carriger

#83. The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

Paul Davies

#84. A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Alfonso Cuaron

#85. Alien superweapons were used," Alex said, walking into the room, sleep-sweaty hair standing out from his skull in every direction. "The laws of physics were altered, mistakes were made.

James S.A. Corey

#86. The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic.

Paul Davies

#87. A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#88. Magic is nothing next to the laws of physics in the hands of gravity.

Ellen Campbell

#89. Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

Michio Kaku

#90. Unlike the laws of physics, which are free of inconsistencies, every man-made order is packed with internal contradictions. Cultures are constantly trying to reconcile these contradictions, and this process fuels change.

Yuval Noah Harari

#91. For all the clever jokes that could be made here involving "mind" and "matter" there is one sure and certain variation you can take with you to the grave: "In the grand scheme of things you don't matter very much, and the laws of physics don't mind at all.

Patrick E. McLean

#92. Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else. The

Gail Carriger

#93. Children have a tendency to behave as poorly as the most poorly behaved kid in the room. The laws of physics dictate that if there is a kid screaming and running in the hallway of a hotel, all the other children will scream and run in the hallway of the hotel.

Jim Gaffigan

#94. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#95. The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. Vittoria

Dan Brown

#96. The laws of physics that deal with inertia also apply to humans, such that situations tend to remain the same over time.

Del Suggs

#97. The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

Bill McKibben

#98. Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#99. No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

Trevor Paglen

#100. Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone

Bill Bryson