Physics Reality Science Quotes

#1. The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.

Brian Greene

#2. Science seems to be at war with itself ... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Bertrand Russell

#3. Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Anton Zeilinger

#5. Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Niels Bohr

#6. I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A heart could only break so many times before the cause was lost.

R.K. Lilley

#7. To be honest, as a species we may not live long enough to ever understand the true reality of the universe. But as the foundation of consciousness lies within the domain of biology one day we shall know all there is to know about it.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

Larry Niven

#9. A theory of reality must not only explain reality, but also knowledge about that reality because knowing reality is part of reality.

Ashish Dalela

#10. It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Carl Jung

#11. there is nothing real or true that is timeless

Lee Smolin

#12. it's what breaks us down and makes us feel weak that builds us up and makes us stronger than before.

Kelly Elliott

#13. Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Jules Michelet

#14. Now I know what the atom looks like.

Ernest Rutherford

#15. I don't fight people for fun.

Fred Durst

#16. This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.

{Referring to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics}

Albert Einstein

#17. Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

Ken Wilber

#18. There's nothing like real love. Nothing.

Shirley Temple

#19. But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!

Eleanor H. Porter

#20. On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Robert Wyatt

#21. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Werner Heisenberg

#22. The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.

Max Tegmark

#23. Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

Amy Zhang

#24. It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality

Wolfgang Pauli

#25. No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

John Myhill

#26. The challenge for physics is deriving the consensus reality from the external reality, and the challenge for cognitive science is to derive the internal reality from the consensus reality.

Max Tegmark

#27. When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

Jay Nichols

#28. It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

Barbara Comyns

#29. Not going. . . . I don't need the hospital wing. . . . I don't want . . .

J.K. Rowling

#30. The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

George Santayana

#31. The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

Jonathan Raban

#32. I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

Bruce Springsteen