Attitude Quote by Hermann Weyl

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

— Federico Fellini

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

— Martin Gardner

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense…

— John Fiske

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals with the…

— G.H. Hardy

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco