Deals Quote by Arthur Eddington

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests…

— Ian Hacking

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

— Ilya Prigogine

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

— Robert Lanza

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

— Claude Bernard

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

— Max Planck

“The ubiquity of chaotic phenomena raises a further problem for our dreams of omniscience through the medium of a Theory of Everything. Even if…

— John D. Barrow

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty.…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Physics is thus a creative work of abstraction, far from the theory of everything that is sometimes claimed. For about a century, then, determinism…

— Mark Burgess

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people…

— Tom Stoppard

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

— David Gilmour