Quotes About Reality

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

They will pass away just as surely as the sun sets in the evening.

One of the cold hard truths that men need to get used to, is that, whenever someone has a problem with facts, the problem isn't with the facts.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

I don't care about what is good and what is evil, I care about what is true.

Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but – quite simply – wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world

I am inclined to follow Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.

If something were to happen that went against our current understanding of reality, scientists would see that as a challenge to our present model, requiring us to abandon or at least change it. It is through such adjustments and subsequent testing that we approach closer and closer to what is true.

Scientific truths are true even if there's nobody around to know about them; were true before humans appeared; will be true after we are extinct.

that childlike inability to distinguish what is true from what we'd like to be true.

You say you have experienced God directly? Well, some people have experienced a pink elephant, but that probably doesn't impress you.

I, like you, see through all the smoke and mirrors, but come on, guys, think of the poor dears who can't handle the truth!