Physics (and Most Everything Else) Quotes

"Physics Quotes"
Steve Carabello, at Penn State, Harrisburg (February 7, 2008)

This extensive collection of quotes goes beyond physics, as this sample shows:

• Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.
  -- Robert Recorde (The Whetstone of Witte (1557))
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" ("I found it!") but rather "hmm....that's funny..."
  -- Isaac Asimov
• History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
  -- Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 astronaut
• Here Men from The Planet Earth
  First Set Foot upon The Moon
  July, 1969 AD
  We Came in Peace for All Mankind.
  -- Plaque left behind on the moon's surface by the crew of Apollo 11.
• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
  -- Thomas Edison.
• Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
  -- Albert Einstein
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
  -- Chinese proverb
• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
  -- Benjamin Franklin
• If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.
  -- Benjamin Franklin