Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
“Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“there are as many universes as there are individuals to form them through thinking.” — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Was the universe just trying to fuck with her? The universe, she thought, could fuck itself.” — Augustus Rose Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller… — Bryce S. DeWitt Copy Share Image
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An experiment," she said ... "I am leaving Nahadoth and Itempas alone together for a while. If the universe starts coming apart… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image