Brain Quote by John Buchan

Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to…

— James Clerk Maxwell

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

— Alan Guth

“The universe is but one immense unit; it cannot be separated into spatial domains that are totally empty and others that are completely filled…

— Henning Genz

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

— John B. S. Haldane

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life…

— Douglas Hofstadter

I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves…

— L.A. Paul

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what…

— Fritz Zwicky

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

— Anonymous

“Since so much of the physical universe, from brain waves to quantum waves, relies upon travelling waves we appreciate the key role played by…

— John D. Barrow

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to…

— Honor Harger