“Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and...” — Lene Hau Quote

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

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.