Fitz-Hugh Ludlow Quotes

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

Physics has the cutest words.

… theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

I love physics.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions

The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without this motion the solar system could not exist.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

I had been interested in particle physics, which deals with the fundamental constituents of matter.