Main character Quote by John Taylor Gatto

“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

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the…

— Robert Sapolsky

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

— Edward M. Lerner

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

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...”

— Henry Lindell

There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.

— Heidi Hammel

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Matt Ridley

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

— Heinz von Foerster