http://quoth.nexusvector.net/tag/physics Quoth en-us Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:30:47 -0700 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:30:47 -0700 http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2763 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:30:47 -0700 electronics magic physics smoke I burned up many chips and circuits. I discovered how electronic components work: They are full of smoke. If the smoke gets out, they don't work anymore.

- Paul Jones

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2613 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:51:22 -0800 illusion physics time People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn, persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2473 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:39:29 -0700 measurement mechanics physics quantum reality If we take quantum theory seriously as a picture of what's really going on, each measurement does more than disturb: it profoundly reshapes the very fabric of reality.
- Nick Herbert

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2325 Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:16:54 -0700 physics One can't break the laws of physics, but you can be civilly disobedient towards them.
- Dr. Tiki
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2154 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:41:48 -0800 crazy physics What flavor of crazy Kool-aid do they make you drink when you join the physics department?
- Charlie Epps - to his physicist friend defending the possibility of psychic abilities
TV: Numb3rs - 2x17

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2038 Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:40:23 -0800 humor math physics violence Now, a lot of people say athletes getting away with crime sends the wrong message to our children. Children who naturally love to break rules, now have another reason to idolize these monsters of the midway. I say we should harness their thirst for mayhem to steer them toward the fields we want our children to excel in. Wanna raise math and science scores? Fine! Let scientists and mathematicians commit random acts of violence without repurcussions. That way kids will want to be like them.
- Stephen Colbert
TV: The Colbert Réport: 2 Feb 2006

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1987 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:46:26 -0800 assumption laws physics science We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
- Max Planck - (1858-1947)

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1979 Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:02:40 -0800 physics The prevailing trend in modern physics is thus much against any sort of view giving primacy to undivided wholeness of flowing movement. Indeed, those aspects of relativity theory and quantum theory which do suggest the need for such a view tend to be de-emphasized and in fact hardly noticed by most physicists, because they are regarded largely as features of the mathematical calculus and not as indications of the real nature of things.
- David Bohm

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1934 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:04:50 -0800 physics Here we have e to the minus blah blah blah, and we have e to the plus blah blah blah--and that is one.
- Dr. Arno Bohm
in Quantum Mechanics class

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1932 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:48:50 -0800 physics Usually, a lot of fundamental questions are not of practical importance.
- Dr. Arno Bohm
in Quantum Mechanics class

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1931 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:47:16 -0800 physics If I assign a problem you have not seen, then it disadvantages everybody equally. So justice will be done.
- Dr. Arno Bohm
in Quantum Mechanics class

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1930 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:45:26 -0800 physics Perturbation Theory: A way of solving problems that one cannot solve.
- Dr. Arno Bohm
in Quantum Mechanics class

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1929 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:42:14 -0800 physics ħ is so important that I once spelled the name of a student with ħ.
- Dr. Arno Bohm
in Quantum Mechanics class

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1855 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:49:35 -0800 physics science theory thermodynamics If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations, then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. And if your theory contradicts the facts, well, sometimes these experimentalists make mistakes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
- Arthur Eddington

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1742 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:50:36 -0700 physics Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.
- John Moffat

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1741 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:50:00 -0700 physics In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
- Frank Wilczek

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1638 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:57:11 -0700 magic physics world There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.
Book: “Diary” by Chuck Palahniuk, pg 192

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1572 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:54:14 -0700 events illusion physics reality time Reality is merely sequences of events that happen relative to one another; time is an illusion.
- Peter Lynds
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1513 Wed, 18 May 2005 05:34:20 -0700 birth change knowledge physics time I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1503 Wed, 11 May 2005 03:35:46 -0700 nature physics It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.
- Niels Bohr

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1500 Wed, 11 May 2005 01:39:55 -0700 physics science I assumed that since your group has four A students, you guys didn't need as much help as the other groups where people were trying to kill each other with pens.
- Mr. Balicki - Chemistry/Physics teacher at Boston Latin School - after telling my sister's lab group that their data was all wrong

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1376 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:45:23 -0800 physics However, without dedicated physics hardware game developers are unable to fully unleash the power of physics on today's platforms.
- AGEIA Technologies, Inc
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]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1357 Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:53:54 -0800 math physics science ugly This is really ugly...so we just use Mathematica and hope for the best.
- Marija Zanic - physics graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1064 Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:20:22 -0800 dipole life physics Life comes in dipoles.
- R.B. Boyer

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1033 Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:16:54 -0800 math mr.durant physics Numbers make sense to me. Physics teachers, eh...
- Mr. Durant - High School Calculus Teacher

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/963 Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:43:39 -0800 entropy physics stupidity work Stupidity is like entropy: it always increases and you have to do work to get rid of it.
- Rob Heslin

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/872 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:51:53 -0800 physics product words The way to think up the name for a new product is to take some perfectly good English word and misspell it.
- Dr. Thurston - during an explanation of the second law of thermodynamics in reference to the new york "thruway"

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/844 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:38:36 -0800 humor physics social God, I'm starting to sound like a sociologist here.
- Dr. Tracy Davis
mentioned after using the term “Magnetic social pressure” to describe how domains form in materials

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