Facts Quote by Ken Wilber

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

— Oscar Wilde

The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian…

— Antony Hewish

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

— Fabiola Gianotti

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

— Bell Hooks

“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the…

— Arthur Eddington

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

— Albert Einstein

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.…

— Jean Rhys

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within…

— Louis L'Amour

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

— Karen Marie Moning