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  • And that included all the laws of physics and mathematics.†   (source)
  • Once again, Thomas looked in awe at the massive moving wall—it defied any sense of physics.†   (source)
  • And since the buildings were just pieces of software, their design wasn't limited by monetary constraints, or even by the laws of physics.†   (source)
  • His last correspondence from Vittoria had been in December—a postcard saying she was headed to the Java Sea to continue her research in entanglement physics… something about using satellites to track manta ray migrations.†   (source)
  • And after I've taken A-level maths I am going to take A-level further maths and physics and then I can go to university.†   (source)
  • "Simple physics!" she yelled.†   (source)
  • Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.†   (source)
  • Although many fields of science, such as physics and chemistry, had become federally funded, paleontology remained strongly dependent on private patrons.†   (source)
  • On the nights that he had time to help tuck Duff in bed—a ritual that Wylie'd cherished—he wanted me to stay in the darkened room, to sit on my cot with him so he could lay one of his big pale hands on Duff's and the other on mine and spin long bedtime stories about the muddles and mysteries of physics.†   (source)
  • His latest career goal is to be a quantum-physics genius.†   (source)
  • There is only chance in this world, chance and physics.†   (source)
  • Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience."†   (source)
  • "Venkat's got a doctorate in physics, Tim," Bruce said.†   (source)
  • Like this girl Sarah in my physics class.†   (source)
  • Her younger brother, Rana, studies for a physics exam on the bed.†   (source)
  • They had these machines in the medical center and the physics department.†   (source)
  • And there was a physics to it, a basic fact, almost a law: For a wolf to live, something else had to die.†   (source)
  • By his nineteenth birthday he'd gotten a degree in creative writing and physics and published his first story in Esquire; by his early twenties, when he started looking into the HeLa story, he'd already published two books and joined the staff of Rolling Stone.†   (source)
  • They showed two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against (an irrational number that only has a conventional meaning in Improbability Physics).†   (source)
  • Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, German and Dutch, trigonometry, solid geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, algebra, geometry, English literature, French literature, German literature, Dutch literature, bookkeeping, geography, modern history, biology, economics; reads everything, preferably on religion and medicine.†   (source)
  • Still, he had learned some things about weightshifting in personal combat class, and about the physics of moving objects.†   (source)
  • I mean, they do have the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins, to say nothing of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.†   (source)
  • Doubtless Master Artemis would have understood the physics of this machine, all Butler cared about was whether or not he could disable it.†   (source)
  • Even though I understand the physics of it, I find it strange that my body could be moving though I am sitting still.†   (source)
  • He never goes anywhere, except to like lectures in quantum physics and stuff!†   (source)
  • I opened my physics book.†   (source)
  • Girl, Inttrrupted In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended.†   (source)
  • Ruth thought of a book she had helped write a few years before, The Physics of Human Nature.†   (source)
  • The physics team was just calling it a day loading their own jeep.†   (source)
  • "In physics," I sprung on him as we sat in the Taco Bell drive-through, "what does the capital letter W stand for?"†   (source)
  • All these technical terms, and it's not even physics; still, who can say that a poem isn't engineered?†   (source)
  • He had a lot to learn about physics, but we were already landing.†   (source)
  • "A physics book, I suppose," he said stiffly.†   (source)
  • Zeitoun was just getting accustomed to the new physics of this world.†   (source)
  • It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.†   (source)
  • Food technologists are now conducting basic research in rheology, a branch of physics that examines the flow and deformation of materials.†   (source)
  • She will present a paper she has coauthored on the use of modular forms outside of number theory, specifically in topology and theoretical physics.†   (source)
  • The delicate chambering and massive unidirectional flow, like a physics experiment.†   (source)
  • This is more like physics.†   (source)
  • Whether he realized it or not, the operator had to have an understanding of physics to be able to visualize what he was doing as he moved the boom over and down to the steel.†   (source)
  • Oh, the laws of physics and of logic — the number system — the principle of algebraic substitution.†   (source)
  • She told her mother that the dog had found its own way home and that she had been invited in by its owner, a former physics teacher.†   (source)
  • Third, her physics teacher had used this very movie to prove, scientifically, that given the speed of the car and the trajectory of the vectors, the actor could indeed jump the bridge-but only if the wind wasn't blowing.†   (source)
  • Bodies in motion, he thought, that old scrap of high school physics.†   (source)
  • Sir Basil asked me about it, and I told him that he was asking the wrong guy—I mean, my degrees are in economics and history, not physics.†   (source)
  • Some of my classmates had trouble with dive physics and pool competency (pool comps).†   (source)
  • Amusement Park Physics -- What are the forces behind the fun?†   (source)
  • She shows her father a recent physics exam, on which she is ashamed to have scored only an 82.†   (source)
  • When Fredi was in college, he took a physics class over the summer at a local community college.†   (source)
  • Your dad worked in Silicon Valley and your mom was a college professor, I'm thinking physics or chemistry."†   (source)
  • I'd noticed her homework and tried to buy things she'd like, not only novels, but books about physics, religion, philosophy, and duplicate volumes for myself so I could read anything that caught her attention.†   (source)
  • I look up from the Physics textbook that has been my close companion for the past three hours.†   (source)
  • And it's physics last thing Friday afternoon.†   (source)
  • Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.†   (source)
  • Cedric Jennings gazes at the silvery mesh intercom speaker above the blackboard in Advanced Physics.†   (source)
  • Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses.†   (source)
  • Ask an Ethiopian abroad if perchance they learned mathematics or physics from a teacher named Kurien, Koshy, Thomas, George, Varugese, Ninan, Mathews, Jacob, Judas, Chandy, Eapen, Pathros, or Paulos, and the odds are their eyes will light up.†   (source)
  • At Columbia—he was the only one of his brothers to attend college and became the first in his family ever to graduate, a fact his mother never ceased to point out to strangers—he'd double-majored in physics and chemistry, with the intention of becoming a professor.†   (source)
  • The third and fourth floors had white-painted, modern classrooms and large, well-equipped chemistry, physics and biology laboratories.†   (source)
  • Amusement Park Physics -- What are the forces behind the fun?†   (source)
  • The dispassionate mathematical laws of physics seem austere and impersonal, like a star or the moon.†   (source)
  • In my high-school physics class.†   (source)
  • The sound it made when the mechanism and basic physics Still holding the gun, she cued up the disc she'd requisitioned and watched Sharon DeBlass's murder again.†   (source)
  • You do physics and all that stuff at school Grace, I guess.†   (source)
  • His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.†   (source)
  • But this is simple physics, Joe.†   (source)
  • By all the laws of physics, she thought, the boat, unbalanced, ought to have been toppling sideways into the water.†   (source)
  • He botched his physics final because every question had to do with the motion of a "carousel."†   (source)
  • At thirty-two, he became head of the Department of Physics of the Patrick Henry University, in the days when the great University still deserved its glory.†   (source)
  • I'm Jonathan, from physics class.†   (source)
  • It will be perceived as being a worse teacher of technical subjects like physics.†   (source)
  • 526 Bentley Durrell was in Commerce's physics class and they had met in the library to exchange notes before a test.†   (source)
  • You're not teaching physics, dear," said Miss Boon delicately.†   (source)
  • I may not be able to conjure a spell, but I know basic physics.†   (source)
  • They say in the laws of physics that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.†   (source)
  • Physics decreed something like falling, and yet the hills of surf, with their own valleys, peaks, and plateaux, confounded his expectations.†   (source)
  • Give her lollipops, give her dolls, give her physics, give her all you can think of — possets and comfits and caraways and lullabies and toys.†   (source)
  • Like I felt when I was in that physics class before I bailed out.†   (source)
  • Elementary physics, known to everybody but intelligentsia.†   (source)
  • I had his astrophysics for physics majors course many a year ago.†   (source)
  • He reviewed his math, his physics, his English, struggling for long hours with his broken-backed books, and as the boat rocked and pitched he set out two main goals for himself.†   (source)
  • Leaving, I felt like a third grader in Advanced Physics 518 at MIT.†   (source)
  • He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real for him.†   (source)
  • Ilis main subjects bad been mathematics and physics, but as subsidiaries he had taken philosophy and musical appreciation.†   (source)
  • I remember when a coin in a slot would get you a stick of gum or a candy bar, but in these dining palaces were vending machines where various coins could deliver handkerchiefs, comb-and-nail-file sets, hair conditioners and cosmetics, first-aid kits, minor drugs such as aspirin, mild physics, pills to keep you awake.†   (source)
  • I took physics and calculus, thinking they would improve my chances of getting into flight training.†   (source)
  • He has no name, No physics for his rage.†   (source)
  • When he is overcome by the mysteries of the universe he turns to physics, not to Hesiod's hexameters.†   (source)
  • And that other thing—science—would still generate gravity and quantum physics and whatever.†   (source)
  • I wasn't aware Geneva had a physics lab.†   (source)
  • Don't waste his time on the physics of interstellar travel.†   (source)
  • Oppenheimer went to Harvard and then on to Cambridge University to pursue a doctorate in physics.†   (source)
  • Fields where technological leaps are most likely: Physics: [omitted]†   (source)
  • The day I went into physics class it was death.†   (source)
  • So physics has never understood this whole class of events.†   (source)
  • You ready to delve into the world of physics?†   (source)
  • If they do, then the conservation laws of physics are in trouble.†   (source)
  • And in two years' time I am going to take A-level physics and get an A grade.†   (source)
  • After a few seconds of tense, gut-feel physics, he felt the force on the tether abate.†   (source)
  • "It says: 'Sensational new breakthrough in Improbability Physics.†   (source)
  • I TOOK JUST ENOUGH PHYSICS in school to master one significant fact: human beings cannot fly.†   (source)
  • Wilder was in there watching Heinrich do a physics experiment with steel balls and a salad bowl.†   (source)
  • I have a grant to study physics at the University of Geneva.†   (source)
  • There's no physics to worry about, no constraints on acceleration, no air resistance.†   (source)
  • This Art, like nuclear physics, had the potential to unleash enormous power.†   (source)
  • Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order.†   (source)
  • "I'm a physics guy, not a computer guy."†   (source)
  • All of them are famous scholars working at the forefront of physics research.†   (source)
  • We have calculus and physics together, so we could start there.†   (source)
  • But there is another kind of behavior, which physics handles badly.†   (source)
  • She was a big wheel-president of her class and a physics major and the college hockey champion.†   (source)
  • But if we stay with the laws of physics, then the Chris that disappeared was unreal.†   (source)
  • I can't explain philotic physics to you.†   (source)
  • What are Elis reading these days in theoretical physics?†   (source)
  • The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.†   (source)
  • About astronomy and physics and whatever Ender wanted to know.†   (source)
  • I took the physics book back to my dormitory.†   (source)
  • We'd spent two hours reviewing for our physics test.†   (source)
  • God, Miracles, and the New Physics-by Leonardo Vetra.†   (source)
  • Obviously, the nomenclature is esoteric, but the physics is very advanced.†   (source)
  • Ye's wife, physics professor Shao Lin, stood up from the crowd's front row.†   (source)
  • He considered physics 'God's natural law.'†   (source)
  • She dropped her physics book and hopped out of the car.†   (source)
  • Joan with her physics books and her golf clubs and her badminton rackets and her breathy voice.†   (source)
  • This is a sign that the forefront of physics research seems to be hitting a wall.†   (source)
  • How much physics do you know, at that level?†   (source)
  • You made your point, but I want to study cutting-edge theoretical physics.†   (source)
  • I'm familiar with general physics-falling bodies, that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck.†   (source)
  • I waited patiently for her to show in physics and then business technology.†   (source)
  • But we are, after all, the department of theoretical physics.†   (source)
  • Today's physics deals with concepts that would have been unimaginable to the ancients."†   (source)
  • Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.†   (source)
  • For an instant, Langdon thought the laws of physics had ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • You really believe that the laws of physics are not invariant across time and space?†   (source)
  • There was no discussion of physics, of relativity, only cold, harsh reality.†   (source)
  • A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to God than religion itself.†   (source)
  • "Relativity is part of the fundamental theories of physics," Ye answered.†   (source)
  • When it is published, it will shake the very foundation of modern physics.†   (source)
  • They were both fourth-year students majoring in theoretical physics, and Ye was their professor.†   (source)
  • The physics principles behind the three-body problem are very simple.†   (source)
  • To accomplish something in theoretical physics requires one to have almost religious faith.†   (source)
  • It means that the laws of physics are not invariant across time and space.†   (source)
  • The development of modern physics seems to suggest that such a line has been touched.†   (source)
  • One of the children took out a worn-out middle school physics textbook.†   (source)
  • There's a picture of one blowing up in the Physics book, mushroom cloud and all.†   (source)
  • I glanced at Sam, who had joined us after a daring escape from first period physics.†   (source)
  • It's really cool…… You see this building here, this is physics.†   (source)
  • It's like watching the illegal substance version of physics class.†   (source)
  • They were majoring in two subjects: physics and philosophy.†   (source)
  • "So they're still teaching you kiddie Physics," he says indulgently.†   (source)
  • Doro had a PhD in physics; she worked in the university department her father had once chaired.†   (source)
  • Cedric already met his twin sister, Belinda, in his physics class.†   (source)
  • "What if I embarrass you?" he said, as if posing a theory, like, say, quantum physics.†   (source)
  • Physics explains my body, but not my soul.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm not really a physicist, but I was trained in physics.†   (source)
  • How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design?†   (source)
  • Technology, working with the laws of physics, continues to push what is possible in ride design.†   (source)
  • Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.†   (source)
  • "It's a perfectly reasonable application of physics and thermodynamics.†   (source)
  • Well, it's the same as the difference between theoretical and applied physics, say.†   (source)
  • Herr Kamyer didn't take us for physics as he has a cold.†   (source)
  • We're doing the physics of language, Shay.†   (source)
  • Remember the intro chapter to our physics book?†   (source)
  • Laws of freaking physics, which do not change anywhere in the universe.†   (source)
  • I said, 'I'm lecturing to Albert Einstein on physics!'†   (source)
  • You know, there's a whole movement of modern physics that sees evidence of a created universe."†   (source)
  • How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design?†   (source)
  • We're not real sure about the physics, but there's not going to be much spatial orientation.†   (source)
  • Jessica was buried in her physics textbook.†   (source)
  • Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.†   (source)
  • He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.†   (source)
  • Check the physics glossary to find out more about the terms used in this exhibit.†   (source)
  • Giving a course of lectures on physics, as I do every year during this month.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew something couldn't be created from nothing—a violation of all the laws of physics.†   (source)
  • Pelcovits, his adviser and a physics professor, told him to avoid it in the first year.†   (source)
  • The behavior of light is to aesthetics what physics is to engineering.†   (source)
  • We all wore silver antlers in physics this afternoon.†   (source)
  • A native New Yorker, BRIAN GREENE teaches physics and mathematics at Columbia University.†   (source)
  • Following the laws of physics, it then recoiled and bounced off.†   (source)
  • Check the physics glossary to find out more about the terms used in this exhibit.†   (source)
  • Physics has become a recurring nightmare.†   (source)
  • So you do not use physics to carry your signal.†   (source)
  • "We talked physics all the way down here," said Galt.†   (source)
  • Technology, working with the laws of physics, continues to push what is possible in ride design.†   (source)
  • In physics, when you haven't done your homework—faint, get taken out …. games …. anything."†   (source)
  • Have you had a high-school course in physics?†   (source)
  • Assembly, math, physics …. there is not one part of today that is worth being alive for.†   (source)
  • "I don't care if you're doing nuclear physics, you're not doing it in my yard.†   (source)
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