I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the…

For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab…

— James Trefil

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality,…

— Francisco Varela

Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does reality essentially…

— Harold Pinter

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes…

— Marianne Williamson

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

— Kedar Joshi

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems…

— David Bohm

The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but…

— Muso Soseki

I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous…

— Harrison Ford

“Awakening is to be found in the ordinary experience of heat or cold, in the change of seasons, in the difficulties of human relationships,…

— Ryōjun Shionuma

“...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.”

— Shoshana Zuboff

“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of…

— Isaiah Berlin

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

— Anonymous

“All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation (who took…

— Erica Jong

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a…

— Virginia Woolf