Physics is not just formulas and theories it’s the poetry of the universe. It explains the movements of galaxies, the behaviour of atoms, and even the technology in our pockets. From Einstein to Hawking, the greatest minds have shared deep insights into nature, time, space, and our place in the cosmos.
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein - “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson - “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
— Werner Heisenberg - “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
— Carl Sagan - “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
— Albert Einstein
- “Physics is not about how the world is, it’s about what we can say about the world.”
— Niels Bohr - “In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you.”
— Frank Wilczek - “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
— Albert Einstein - “The laws of physics are the same everywhere, but the consequences are not.”
— Sean Carroll - “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
— Richard Feynman
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
— Albert Einstein - “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
— Stephen Hawking - “There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”
— Niels Bohr - “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”
— Richard Feynman - “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.”
— Richard Feynman
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein - “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
— Richard Feynman - “The beauty of a physical theory lies not only in its ability to explain the known but also in its ability to predict the unknown.”
— Unknown - “Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.”
— Ernest Rutherford - “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
— Same idea, often paraphrased differently
- “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
— Douglas Adams - “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
— Albert Einstein - “Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away—if your car could go straight upwards.”
— Fred Hoyle - “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
— Steven Weinberg - “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
— Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”
— Niels Bohr - “Quantum mechanics is very imposing. But an inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing.”
— Albert Einstein - “The particle is not in any definite place until it is observed.”
— Paraphrasing quantum principle - “Shut up and calculate!”
— David Mermin (on the practical approach to quantum physics) - “God does not play dice with the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
- “Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.”
— Richard Feynman - “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
— Albert Einstein - “The best way to learn is to teach.”
— Frank Oppenheimer - “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
— Adam Smith - “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.”
— Archimedes
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Carl Sagan - “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
— Edwin Hubble - “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Eden Phillpotts - “Physics is imagination in a straightjacket.”
— John Moffat - “There is a grandeur in this view of life.”
— Charles Darwin (applied to the scientific worldview)
- “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
— Carl Sagan - “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
— Nikola Tesla
Physics offers more than equations and predictions. It offers perspective. It humbles us, enlightens us, and invites us to look deeper into reality.
