Solid State Physics

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

“Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

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