Physics Quotes

1. "In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds."- Albert Einstein

2. "When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist’s life, I’m speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo’s work was condemned by the church, Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us get enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night…"- Leon Ledermain (Nobel Laureates in Physics 1988)

3. "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."- Isaac Newton

4. "Time is not something but rather an effect that is relative to the density of the aether with light traveling through it."- Aaron Murakami

5. "All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it and then it becomes trivial".- Ernest Rutherford