Quotes About Reality

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?

Când analiz?m mai atent felul în care ne facem observaÈ›iile È™i ne construim concepte despre ceea ce ne înconjoar?, ajugem s? ne întreb?m dac? avem motive întemeiate s? credem c? exist? o realitate obiectiv?.

Things are as they are because we are

Suntem cu to?ii pl?smuiri ale visului cuiva.

Fizica cuantic? ne spune c? oricât de am?nunÈ›ite ar fi observaÈ›iile noastre asupra prezentului, trecutul (neobservat), la fel ca viitorul, e nedefinit È™i exist? doar ca un spectru de posibilit??i. Conform fizicii cuantice, universul nu are doar un singur trecut sau o singur? istorie.

La física cuántica es un nuevo modelo de la realidad que nos proporciona una imagen del universo que en muchos conceptos fundamentales para nuestra comprensión intuitiva de la realidad carecen de significado.

Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can't be sure of our past history either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions. It is the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.

realismo dependiente del modelo», basada en la idea de que nuestros cerebros interpretan los datos de los órganos sensoriales elaborando un modelo del mundo.

Thus the very fact that we exist as beings that can ask the question "Why is the universe the way it is?" is a restriction on the history we live in. It implies it is one of the minority of histories that have galaxies and stars. This is an example of what is called the Anthropic Principle. The Anthropic Principle says that the universe has to be more or less as we see it, because if it were different there wouldn't be anyone here to observe it.

por completa que sea nuestra observación del presente, el pasado (no observado) y el futuro son indefinidos y sólo existen como un espectro de posibilidades.

Nous menons notre vie sans quotidienne sans presque rien comprendre au monde qui est le nôtre.

In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven aan het oudere en tegengestelde standpunt: we zien variatie nog steeds als een massa onlogische toevalligheden, die hoofdzakelijk van waarde is omdat zo'n spreiding te gebruiken is voor de berekening van een gemiddelde, hetgeen we dan beschouwen als iets wat een essentie nog het best benadert.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Life sucks, then you die

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.