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Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.
by Robert L. Scotto (Scientist) keywords: atmospheric, based, caused, changes, co2, contribution, effect, energy, large, laws, levels, man, minuscule, natural, output, part, physics, solar, temperature , variability Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
by Frederick Soddy (Scientist, English , born in 1877) keywords: been, chemistry, invade, make, mess, messy, part, permitted, physicist, physicists, physics, reason, should, termed , why It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
by Gertrude Stein (Author, American , born in 1874) keywords: action, always, basic, cannot, equal, funny, get, men, opposite, persecute, physics, principle, reaction, realise, rouse, scientific, strong, stronger, supposed, them , themselves The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
by Leigh Steinberg (Businessman, American , born in 1949) keywords: before, bigger, bodies, changed, ever, faster, harder, hit, hitting, moving, nfl, object, physics, stationary, stronger, than , today I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
by Jack Steinberger (Physicist, American , born in 1921) keywords: compete, could, generation, had, ideas, learn, might, new, physics , younger There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
by Patrick Stewart (Actor, English , born in 1940) keywords: been, books, business, command, countless, generation, manuals, next, papers, physics, scholarly, several, significance, star, style, trek , written An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
by Hudson Stuck (Explorer, English , born in 1865) keywords: aloud, another, busily, day, dictation, geography, history, hour, little, made, pass, physics, reading, spent, two , writing The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
by James Joseph Sylvester (Mathematician, English , born in 1814) keywords: human, intelligence, intelligible, laws, mathematics, object, physics, pure, unfolding , world I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
by John Tesh (Musician, American , born in 1952) keywords: blew, chemistry, death, eventually, got, grew, into, musician, parents, physics, put, radio, starve, sure, up, wanting, were , would In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
by Wietse Venema (Scientist, Dutch , born in 1951) keywords: around, controlled, deal, equipment, experiments, failures, had, inside, kinds, learned, life, multiple, nets, physics, possible, previous, probably, rely, safety, software, systems, where , wrote But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
by Benjamin Whorf (Scientist, American , born in 1897) keywords: became, behavior, course, due, evident, factor, fire, meaning, only, physical, physics, qua, situation, sometimes, start , through Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
by Eugene Wigner (Physicist, American , born in 1902) keywords: already, becoming, complex, fact, long, longer, nature, old, physical, physicist, physics, place, problems, solve, taking, them, too, train, unbelievably, understands , where My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
by Kenneth G. Wilson (Scientist, American , born in 1936) keywords: before, chemistry, department, faculty, father, graduate, had, harvard, her, marriage, mother, physics, university, work , year As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: basic, beyond, blocks, building, equipment, everyday, experience, explore, forces, gravity, life, lots, ordinary, our, perhaps, physics, strong, take , weak Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: before, century, describing, developed, elegant, equations, especially, even, generality, greatest, most, nature, out, physics, really, simplicity, string, subtle, theory, turned, very , work Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
by Edward Witten (Mathematician, American , born in 1951) keywords: because, brought, into, mechanics, physics, principle, quantum, uncertainty , unexpected
