Perspective

"We are atoms contemplating atoms."
- Attributed to Richard Feynman by Brian Cox

mash-up

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

happiest thought of his life

"If gravity and acceleration feel the same, perhaps they are the same."
- Einstein

get it?

"They love me because they understand everything I do - they love you because they don't understand anything you do."
- Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein 

solver

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

- Einstein

why wear socks?

"... when they'd eventually get holes in them."
- Albert Einstein

simplicity

"If a theory can't be explained to a child, then it's probably useless."
- Albert Einstein 

atheist

"Left to themselves evil people will do evil things and good people will do good things. If you want good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg

physics superheros

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
- Brian Cox quoting Carl Sagan

Albert Einstein had a marriage contract drawn up with his first wife Mileva Maric. Among the stipulations was that she was to stop talking whenever he requested.

unpromising

Stephen Hawking didn't learn to read until he was 8.

age

The brightness of supernovae tell us how far away they are.

Hubble Deep Field image source here. 

"I've been like a boy playing on the seashore diverting myself and now and then finding myself another smooth pebble or prettier shell than usual, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."
- Issac Newton

"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion no matter how persistent."
- Einstein

monkey

"We are just an advanced breed of monkey, on a minor planet of a very average star."
- Stephen Hawking

Mystery

"Mystery is perhaps the greatest gift given to our species."
- Einstein

player

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
- Albert Einstein

bow

"If I was not a physicist I'd be a musician."
- Albert Einstein

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