Conception Quote by Albert Einstein

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

— Albert Einstein

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives…

— Albert Einstein

“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

— Aristotle

“Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and…

— Sean O Nuallain

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

— Anonymous

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds.... It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

“First, some physicists insist that quantum mechanics cannot be formulated without taking into account the minds of observers. They argue that minds cannot be…

— Rupert Sheldrake

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by…

— Anonymous

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård