Quotes About Reality

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

When we do science, we want to describe the world in the most objective way possible. We try to eliminate distortions and optical illusions deriving from our point of view. Science aspires to objectivity, to a shared point of view about which it is possible to be in agreement.

A dolgok csak egymáshoz képest változnak. A világ alapszerkezetében nincs id?. Az id? múlásának érzete csupán közelítés, és csak a mi makroszkopikus mérettartományunkban érvényes.

Carlo Rovelli

If we try to put together what we have learned in the twentieth century about the physical world, the clues point toward something profoundly different from our instinctive understanding of matter, space, and time.

But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the "now.

This is the disconcerting conclusion that emerges from Boltzmann's work: the difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world. It's a conclusion that leaves us flabbergasted: Is it really possible that a perception so vivid, basic, existential—my perception of the passage of time—depends on the fact that I cannot apprehend the world in all of its minute detail?

to inquire about the ultimate foundation of everything is to ask a question that perhaps simply does not make sense.

Kuantum mekani?inde, bir ba?ka cisimle çarp??mad??? sürece hiçbir cismin belirli bir konumu yoktur.

What is the 'present'? We say that only the things of the present exist: the past no longer exists and the future doesn't exist yet. But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the 'now'.

There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.

Çok h?zl? hareket eden dalgac?klard?r. Kuantum mekani?inin garip kurallar?na göre yok olup yeniden ortaya ç?karlar, var olan ?eyler hiçbir zaman kararl? bir durumda olmaz; bir etkile?imden di?erine gerçekle?en bir s?çramadan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildirler.

We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they've evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another. So the concepts in our head are designed to deal with animals, trees, rivers and people. There's no reason why they should be able to deal with atoms or galaxies. But I believe we're flexible and our minds are curious, so we can change our thinking.

We often say that causes precede effects and yet, in the elementary grammar of things, there is no distinction between "cause" and "effect.

the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is also made of quanta;

the world is made entirely from quantum fields

Albert Einstein, yak?n dostu ?talyan Michele Besso öldü?ünde onun k?z karde?ine dokunakl? bir mektu yazm??t?: "Michele bu garip dünyadan benden biraz önce ayr?ld?. Bunun hiçbir anlam? yok. Bizim gibi fizi?e inanan insanlar, geçmi?, ?imdi ve gelecek aras?ndaki ayr?m?n sürüp giden inatç? bir yan?lsamadan ba?ka bir ?ey olmad???n? bilir.

It is the limit up to which we can determine physical variables.

Where are these quanta of space? Nowhere. They are not in space because they are themselves the space. Space is created by the linking of these individual quanta of gravity. Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

What happens between one interaction and the next is not mentioned in the theory. It does not exist.

The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.

We often say that causes precede effects and yet, in the elementary grammar of things, there is no distinction between "cause" and "effect."* There

external perception is an internal dream which proves to be in harmony with external things; and instead of calling 'hallucination' a false perception, we must call external perception 'a confirmed hallucination.

due to the limitations of our consciousness we perceive only a blurred vision of the world and live in time.