English Physicist Quotations

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Entire lights rays - you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

I like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.