Quotes About Reality

Feynman once wrote, quantum mechanics "describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is–absurd.

So the scale law rules out the familiar idea of worlds-within-worlds found in science fiction, that is, the idea that inside the atom there could be an entire universe, or that our galaxy could be an atom in a much larger universe.

This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.

Imagine fish swimming in a shallow pond, just below the lily pads, thinking that their "universe" is only two-dimensional. Our three-dimensional world may be beyond their ken. But there is a way in which they can detect the presence of the third dimension. If it rains, they can clearly see the shadows of ripples traveling along the surface of the pond. Similarly, we cannot see the fifth dimension, but ripples in the fifth dimension appear to us as light.

Cuando estamos sentados en una silla, creemos que la tocamos, pero en realidad estamos suspendidos sobre ella, flotando a menos de un nanometro sobre el asiento

There is an old saying: If appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science

Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was fond of saying that no one really understands the quantum theory. Ironically, although the quantum theory is the most successful theory ever proposed by the human mind

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Cuando alguien visitaba a Einstein en su casa, este les preguntaba: «¿Existe la luna porque un ratón la mira?». Pero, por mucho que la teoría cuántica violase el sentido común, algo había de verdad en ella: era experimentalmente correcta. Sus predicciones han sido corroboradas con hasta once decimales, lo que la convierte en la teoría más precisa de todos los tiempos.

The material world may come and go, but consciousness remains as the defining element, which means that consciousness, in some sense, creates reality.

Todo individuo considera que los límites de su propia visión son los límites del mundo. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

la conciencia podría ser la base fundamental de toda la realidad.

La atracción gravitatoria es una ilusión. Por ejemplo, quizá ahora esté sentado en una silla, leyendo este libro. Por lo general, diría que la gravedad tira de usted hacia el asiento, y por eso no sale volando hacia el espacio. Pero Einstein diría que está sentado en la silla porque la Tierra deforma la masa de espacio sobre su cabeza, y esa deformación le empuja hacia el suelo.

Number 1: I calls 'em like I see 'em. Number 2: I calls 'em the way they are. Number 3: They ain't nothing till I calls

No aspect of our world is as mysterious as consciousness, the state of awareness that animates our every waking moment, the sense of being located in a body that exists within a larger world of color, sound, and touch, all of it filtered through our thoughts and imbued by emotion.

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear. We don't perceive things the way they are. We have the habit of dreaming with no basis in reality. We literally dream things up in our imaginations. Because we don't understand something, we make an assumption about the meaning, and when the truth comes out, the bubble of our dream pops and we find out it was not what we thought it was at all.

Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering, and tears.

You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Humans are dreaming all the time.

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist's work — but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.