Physically Speaking

Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy provides the largest published collection of quotations pertaining to physics and astronomy. You will find profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. Topics range from anti-matter to x-rays. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure. This book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students, scientific readers, and the more general reader who is interested in who has said what on physics and astronomy.

"The book contains a wealth of information. One finds quotations that one reads for one's own amusement, and one feels the urge to use again and again. this book is bound to become successful because of the riches of its contents." -The Chemical Intelligencer "This book is an especially delightful anthology of quotations Poetry, humor, history, fact, and wisdom are found here on every page The book merits the strongest recommendation and will probably encourage its readers to look for Statistically Speaking, an earlier work by the same authors." -School Science Review

Autorentext

C.C. Gaither

Zusammenfassung
A collection of quotations pertaining to physics and astronomy. It lets you discover what others have said on topics ranging from anti-matter to x-rays.

Inhalt
ANTI-MATTER, ASTRONOMER, ASTRONOMY, ATOMS, BIG-BANG, BLACK HOLES, CALCULATION, CAUSE AND EFFECT, CHAOS, COMETS, CONSTELLATIONS, COSMOLOGIST, COSMOLOGY, COSMOS, CRYSTALS, DATA, DOPPLER, E = MC2, ECLIPSE, EINSTEIN, ALBERT, ELECTRONS, ENERGY, ERROR, ETHER, EXPERIMENT, FACT, FISSION, FORCE, FUSION, GALAXIES, GEOMETRY, GLUONS, GOD, GRAVITY, HEAT, HYPOTHESIS, INFINITE, KNOWLEDGE, LAWS, LIGHT, LOCATION, MAGNETIC, MATHEMATICS, MATTER, METEORS, MILKY WAY, MODELS, MONOPOLES, MOTION, NATURE, NEUTRON, NEUTRINO, NEWTON, SIR ISAAC, OBSERVATION, OBSERVATORY, OCCAM'S RAZOR, OPTICS, ORDER, PARADOX, PARTICLES, PENDULUM, PHOTON, PHYSICIST, PHYSICS, PLANETS, PRAYER, PRINCIPLE, PROBABILITY, PROTONS, PULSAR, QUARK, QUANTUM THEORY, RADAR, RADIATION, RADIUM, REALITY, RED SHIFT, RELATIVITY, REST, SIMULTANEITY, SINGULARITY, SOUND, SOLAR SYSTEM, SPACE, SPACE-TIME, SPECTRAL SEQUENCE, SPECTROSCOPE, STARS, STATISTICS, SUN, SYMBOL, SYMMETRY, SYSTEMS, TACHYONS, TELESCOPE, TEMPERATURE, THEORY, THERMODYNAMICS, TIME, TRUTH, UNCERTAINTY, UNIVERSE VACUUM, VELOCITY, VOID, X-RAY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, PERMISSIONS, SUBJECT INDEX AUTHOR INDEX