Solid State Physics

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

“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)