Nature Quote by Brian Greene

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope…

— Richard P. Feynman

“...Heisenberg removed the conceit that the workings of Nature should necessarily accord with common sense.”

— Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded in the…

— Marcus du Sautoy

“I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still…

— David Deutsch

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what…

— Charles Kingsley

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

— Claude Bernard

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

— Werner Heisenberg

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature is not designed to satisfy our personal longings. Nature is what she is, and it’s a privilege merely to be privy to her…

— John Brockman