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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. -- Albert Einstein
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. -- Michael Polanyi
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. -- Craig Ferguson
Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. -- Terry Riley
Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics. -- Terry Riley
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. -- Brian Greene
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. -- Robert Lanza
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects. -- David Perlmutter
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. -- Eugene Wigner
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer. -- Paul Davies
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning. -- Eugene Wigner
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. -- Nikola Tesla
Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop. -- Paul Gilding
If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?! -- Frank J. Tipler
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work. -- Gore Vidal
The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are? -- Paul Davies
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but. -- John Archibald Wheeler
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being. -- John P. Wheeler III
The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges? -- Mira Grant
So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible. -- Richard P. Feynman
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece -- Dan Brown
Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity.It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics. -- Toba Beta
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. -- Paul Davies
All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear. -- Brian Greene
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature. -- Alfred Harker
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. -- Kevin Kelly
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
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
I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics. -- Karen Marie Moning
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
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
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 -- Amy Zhang
One can't prove that God doesn't exist, but science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator. -- Stephen Hawking
No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics. -- Thaddeus Golas
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
... 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
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
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force. -- Nancy Cartwright
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
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
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
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
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 breaksthe laws of physics. -- Anna Moss
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 comes from. -- Ben Stein
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
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
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it. -- David Deutsch
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
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
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
It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship. -- Richard P. Feynman
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
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning. -- David Gross
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
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
I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact. -- Toba Beta
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
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
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one. -- Daniel Alarcon
There is no way to physically always be there for your children and always be at the office and always be present for your significant other and then take care of yourself. The laws of physics necessitate that somebody or some thing is going to get the short end of the stick. -- LZ Granderson
Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better. -- Nathan Myhrvold
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation. -- Trudi Canavan
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky. -- Anita Shreve
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy. -- David Christian
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it. -- Walter Lewin
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace. -- Michio Kaku
In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me. - Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws. -- Leonard Mlodinow
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? -- Mark Hyman
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them. -- Michio Kaku
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives. -- Astro Teller
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. -- James Joseph Sylvester
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. -- Ronald Reagan
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. -- John Gilmore
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. -- Albert Einstein
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. -- Mitch Horowitz
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. -- Pierre Duhem
Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future. -- Brian Greene
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. -- Stephen Hawking
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. -- Ernest Hemingway
Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost -- Kami Garcia

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