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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.
I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.
Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.
The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
I knew I can teach physics well, so earning money from tuition was no struggle. The struggle was to earn money through acting.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
We have an amazing engineering team in the company pushing the limits of device physics and some great partners in manufacturing.
I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?
Mulan is not a superhero, so her physical action needed to be anchored in a strong female body and bounded by the laws of physics.
And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.