Pastoral Resources

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.