Who Needs Physics?

Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson

I need physics more than friends. - J Robert Oppenheimer

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

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

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

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. - Edward Teller

I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal

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

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

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

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. - Lord Kelvin

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty. - Kyle Hill

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

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

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

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. - Johann G. Hamann

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country. - Kilburn Hall

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