“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Thomas Hardy
“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”
B. F. Skinner
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics”
“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”
“Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
