Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
Benoit Mandelbrot
If you go into any physics lab, everybody is depressed and feels isolated. We don't get any feedback that anybody cares about what we're... →
Aaron D. O'Connell
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
David Perlmutter
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Michael Polanyi
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as... →
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and... →
John Polkinghorne
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity... →
John Pople
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the... →
Willard Van Orman Quine