Physics
- March 18 – Woodstock of physics, the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The labor we delight in physics pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)