"Reality is what kicks back when you kick……" — Victor J. Stenger
"Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations."
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28 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger
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Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.
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