Quotes about physics

Physics will always be, at its core, about understanding our place in the Universe...

Suddenly, nothing else mattered. I wanted to know... about gravity and particles and and relativity. About stars and atoms and light and energy. Above all, I wanted to know how it was all connected and how I was connected to it. ...[I]t mattered to me as a human ...if I managed it even a little bit, I'd not have wasted this little blip of time as a conscious being. I decided to become a physicist.

[A]s I studied more physics the question... at the core... was: "What is matter, and how does it interact to create everything around us—including ourselves?"

As far as we know, the physical laws we observe... on Earth apply everywhere... You can test them for yourself.

This is why I love physics. Everything you learn will come in useful somewhere else, and it's all one big adventure...

Physics is awesome... because the same patterns are universal... in the kitchen and in the furthest reaches of the universe.

“‘Different laws of physics,’” said Ariel, “and ‘supernatural’ seem synonymous to me.”

It has always seemed to me that the hard thing to understand is not quantum mechanics, but where classical mechanics comes from (in the sense of how it emerges from a “measurement”).

How did particle physics get itself into its current state where some of its most prominent practitioners question whether their colleagues have given up on science?

The standard model is just too good. It's too hard to find an experimental result that disagrees with it, and too hard to come up with theoretical advances that will address some of the things it leaves unexplained.

Quantum theory can be described as a new kind of language to be used in a dialogue between us and the systems we study with our instruments. ...It tells us nothing about what the world would be like in our absence.

Non-local influences do not diminish with distance. They are as potent at a million miles as at a millimeter.

Non-local influences act instantaneously. The speed of their transmission is not limited by the velocity of light.

A non-local interaction links up one location with another without crossing space, without decay, and without delay. A non-local interaction is, in short, unmediated, unmitigated, and immediate.