Determinism Quote by Stephen Hawking

“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

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”

— Eric Chaisson

Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until…

— Gregg Braden

“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer containing more…

— Eugene Wigner

“Quantum physics shows that it is in the nature of reality to be unpredictable.”

— David Christian

“Physics is thus a creative work of abstraction, far from the theory of everything that is sometimes claimed. For about a century, then, determinism…

— Mark Burgess

“Tony Rothman points out, “Why the second law should distinguish between past and future while all the other laws of nature do not is…

— Melanie Mitchell

“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite so drastic…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

— David Gilmour

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

— Werner Heisenberg

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

— Brian Greene