Oliver Joseph Lodge Quotes

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without this motion the solar system could not exist.

We might be allowed to... assert that because our only cognitions of matter are cognitions of force, matter in the scientific sense is force.

I love physics.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

Physics has the cutest words.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

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.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.