The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

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.

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.