18 Movie Quotes about Physics (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 22, 2026

Memorable quotes about physics, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Well, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove.

Quote from My Cousin Vinny

2 So, don't take gravity too lightly or it'll catch up with you.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

3 But... that's like the fourth dimension.

Lee Meriwether as Linda Davis in 4D Man (1959)

4 That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

5 If I can just reverse the polarity - send out waves of super-energy.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

6 No, no. It's supported from the ground by rays, probably some form of magnetic flux, like invisible legs.

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

7 Two objects can occupy the same space at the same time under proper conditions.

Quote from 4D Man (1959)

8 Here we are now. Albert Einstein gave me this, you know. Yeah. Nice man, nice man. Made a fortune in physics.

Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik in Caddyshack (1980)

9 Aladdin's lamp in a physics laboratory.

Quote from Forbidden Planet (1956)

10 Elementary physics... a beam of energy can always be diverted.

Quote from TRON (1982)