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    When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
    When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
    That's relativity.

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through read more

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

by John Fowles Found in: Nature Quotes, Physics Quotes,
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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

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I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has read more

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent
of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and
so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think
that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Physics Quotes,
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful read more

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past
centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

by Freeman John Dyson Found in: Physics Quotes,
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

by Leon Lederman Found in: Physics Quotes,
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I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

by Isidor Isaac Rabi Found in: Physics Quotes,
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When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only
a minute. But when you read more

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only
a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you
think it's two hours. That's relativity.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Physics Quotes,
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I don't believe in mathematics.

I don't believe in mathematics.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Physics Quotes,
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