Doe Quote by Richard Dawkins

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits…

— Max Tegmark

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was…

— Richard P. Feynman

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves…

— Martin Rees

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in…

— Edgar Mitchell

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea…

— Hans Bethe

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.…

— Fritjof Capra

We're actually really lucky that [physics] works, because no one knows why the thoughts in our heads should relate to the fundamental workings of…

— Suman Rai

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're…

— Ray Kurzweil

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,

— Neil Turok