The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The only reason psychology students don't have to do more and harder mathematics than physics students is because the mathematicians haven't yet… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels)… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting.… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny.… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“THE DIFFICULTIES AND INDEED PERPLEXITIES which beset us the moment we try to make philosophic sense out of the findings of quantum… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“But, if we consider, as physicists now claim, that everything is energy—everything we see, everything we think, everything we do—then it is… — J.K. Franko Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular,… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If physics and cosmology are truly sciences, then there exists a body of excellent evidence that the scale and the varieties of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
No matter how many times you've seen the movies and the TV shows that have a protagonist leaping in the path of… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" The "Where do… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“[M]odern physics has definitely decided for Plato. For the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense of… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image