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Newcastle University

Physics

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: physical science, environment

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Physics

Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), translit. physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit. 'knowledge of nature', from φύσις phýsis "nature") is the natural science that studies matter and its motion and behavior through space and time and that studies the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.

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The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.

Albert Einstein, Preface to Max Planck's Where is Science Going? (1933)

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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964) Volume III, p. 18-9

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The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)

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