David Hilbert Quotes

I'm a huge advocate of all sciences. And my favorite - actually, not my favorite because I love all sciences - but my primary science that I study all the time is physics. It's the mother of all sciences because it's just how things move and how things react to the world around them. I feel like I would definitely go to college for physics.

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

I get paid to do what I love. If you understand physics, the foundation of the atomic theory and relativity, you understand how the future is going to unfold. You understand what things are not possible. You understand why things work. I get paid to do what I love the most, and that is to work on the Unified Field Theory and to see the future.

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

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

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born

Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.