Who Needs Physics?

Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

A college education shows a man how little other people know. - T.C. Hailburton

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. - Erwin Schrodinger

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt

Yale: 1. A well known Ivy League university; 2. What southern cheerleaders do. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell

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

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

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

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. - Paul Dirac

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. - Bertrand Russell

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. - Stephen Hawking

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. - Mark Zuckerberg

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, is physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. - Bertrand Russell

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. - Garry Trudeau

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. - H L Mencken

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. - W.K. Hartmann

If you want to succeed, worry less about what college you get into and more about doing your homework, taking care of your chores and being nice to other people. - Jay Mathews

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. - Lisa Randall

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. - William F Buckley