Hugh Everett Quotes

#1. As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.

Hugh Everett III

#2. [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

Hugh Everett III

#3. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.

Kevin Michel

#4. We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I'm tired of being second ... I'm done with it.

Kevin Durant

#6. Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

Hugh Everett III

#7. We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

Janeane Garofalo

#8. I don't want to play; I want to win. But if you give me the rules, I'll take it from there.

Veronica Rossi

#9. Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

Murray Gell-Mann

#10. I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Ed Gillespie

#11. The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

Frank Miller

#12. When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

Jane McGonigal

#13. Every life is a profession of faith ...

Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. Leadership does not depend on being right.

Ivan Illich

#15. You can't stop your heart from loving, really
it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot.

Marisa Miller

#17. Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

Jason Collins

#18. I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

Lou Doillon