Solid State Physics

Famous quotes containing the words solid, state and/or physics:

    “Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
    —André Maurois (1885–1967)

    “Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Now the twitching stops. Now you are still. We are through with physiology and theology, physics begins.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)