Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

PHYSICS to me.. umm well it's like ENERGY, spreading in all DIMENSION of mind which tends to the TENSION, which FORCES the MOTION to come out.

There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was far faster than light;She started one dayIn a relative way,And returned on the previous night.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple