Physics
The Wykeham Professor of Physics is the only endowed chair in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford.
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.”
—Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)
“The labor we delight in physics pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
—Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)