Aim Quote by Pierre Duhem

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

— Pierre Duhem

The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are…

— Kevin Michel

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

— Marcel Duchamp

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

— Paul Dirac

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

— Anonymous

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances,…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

— Niels Bohr

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences…

— L.A. Paul

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine…

— Albert Einstein

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“Physical reality cannot account for its own existence for the simple reason that nature—the physical—is that which by definition already exists; existence, even taken…

— David Bentley Hart