Creative work Quote by Mark Burgess

“The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

“Quantum physics might seem to undermine the idea that nature is governed by laws, but that is not the case. Instead it leads us…

— Stephen Hawking

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

— Ilya Prigogine

“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance, they have…

— Louis de Broglie

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't talk about…

— Sean M. Carroll

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

— Max Planck

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

— Arthur Eddington

The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical…

— Joseph Lovering

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for…

— Sean Carroll

Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of…

— Peter van Inwagen