Jim Peebles Quotes

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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.

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

I think complexity is beautiful.

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.