Charm Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

— Brian Greene

“This means that, in some sense, free will is a fake. Decisions are made ahead of time by the brain, without the input of…

— Michio Kaku

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it…

— Sam Harris

“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb for ‘freedom’.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

— Samuel Johnson

“The discovery of instances which confirm a theory means very little if we have not tried, and failed, to discover refutations. For if we…

— Karl Popper

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

— Corliss Lamont

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

— Matt Ridley

If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from,…

— Karl Popper