Physicist Quotes

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.
From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.
I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient.
I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.
I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.
I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.
I'm pretty slow at writing papers.
If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?
If one just tried to invent a universe on one's own, it would probably end up being a much less colorful and interesting universe than the one that we live in.
If there's no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you'd expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space.
If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.
If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties of protons must somehow be 'known' by the electrons. By extension, every elementary particle must carry around enough information to produce the entire universe. I find that difficult to believe.
If you consider the universe one second after the Big Bang, the expansion rate would have to have been just right to an accuracy of 15 decimal places, or else the universe would really not work.
In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could.
«first‹previous6566676869707172737475next›last»
Total Records : 1769

Related Books

Share to your friends..

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive