Who Needs Physics?

Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson

I need physics more than friends. - J Robert Oppenheimer

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born

Electoral College: Institute of higher yearning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. - Erwin Schrodinger

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty. - Kyle Hill

Yale: 1. A well known Ivy League university; 2. What southern cheerleaders do. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. - Daniel Bernoulli

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

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. - Paul Dirac

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. - Stephen Hawking

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Human psychology describes a bump on the bump. - Willard Quine

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughan

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. - H L Mencken

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. - W.K. Hartmann

If you want to succeed, worry less about what college you get into and more about doing your homework, taking care of your chores and being nice to other people. - Jay Mathews

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. - Johann G. Hamann

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. - Ricky Williams

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country. - Kilburn Hall

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. - Lisa Randall

I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. - William F Buckley