Physics Analogy Quotes

Politics is a like physics. Whatever goes up has to come down a little bit.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.