“The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus.”
“At present, physicists are enamoured of symmetry and search only for continuous pictures of fundamental physics. Maybe, one day, they will be motivated to look at possible structures of a fundamentall...”
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“Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.”
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“Physicists use the wave theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the particle theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays”
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“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
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“Physics is not just a set of true facts and s and things like that. In many ways it's kind of an attitude. It's a way of thinking about different things.”
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