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Theoretical Physics Quotes

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
- Max Born

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
- Paul Dirac

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them
- Stephen Hawking

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.
- Robert B Laughlin

Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics: time reversal.
- Ian Mcewan

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
- Adam Pascal

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.
- Mark Rowlands

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