Quotes About Reality

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

Apparently, some physicists argue that time is curved. I suppose this means that the past is in some way still present.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

When you're in this world, you don't get to pick and choose what you go through.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

A picture is a fact.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.