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Quotes About Parallel Universes

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.
~ Michio Kaku
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
~ David Deutsch
If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the Earth to include the solar system, our Galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.
~ David Deutsch
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
~ Joshua Jackson
They also may dismiss the proposal that DMT can allow our brains to perceive dark matter or parallel universes, realms of existence inhabited by conscious entities.
~ Rick Strassman
But the world they were in was not the world he was in.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Make no mistake, everywhere you go, not just in Marvel Comics, there's parallel universes...Here? On the surface streets: traffic, couples in love, falafel-to-go, tourists in jogging suits licking stamps for postcards... And over the wall behind closed doors: other things-people strapped to chairs, sleep deprivation, the smell of piss...other things happening for "reasons of national security
~ Joe Sacco
There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck. Variations.
~ E. Lockheart
But "we" in this sentence are the collection of our alternate selves in the alternate, but all equally real, universes of the multiverse.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
~ David Deutsch
We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?
~ Janna Levin
I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.
~ Drew Barrymore
A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.
~ Dylan Thomas
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
~ Stephen Hawking
There are other worlds than these.
~ Stephen King
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
These concepts implied fixed futures, parallel universes, and an overall or grand design, doing away with innovative or changing possibilities.
~ Joseph McMoneagle
Our worlds are all jumbled together--your world, my world, the sheepman's world. Sometimes they overlap and sometimes they don't.
~ Haruki Murakami
The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.
~ Jenna Wortham
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
~ Marianne Williamson
It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.
~ Katie Couric
The white people never looked at the Aborigines, and the Aborigines never looked at the white people. The two races seemed to inhabit separate but parallel universes. I felt as if I was the only person who could see both groups at once.
~ Bill Bryson
But if electrons can exist in parallel states hovering between existence and nonexistence, then why can't the universe? After all, at one point the universe was smaller than an electron. Once we introduce the possibility of applying the quantum principle to the universe, we are forced to consider parallel universes.
~ Michio Kaku