Quotes About Reality

And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life. Life is a nightmare. Yes.

Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.

The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine. This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules. Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence where ever it leads and question everything. Accept these terms and the cosmos is yours...

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems.

WHAT IS NOW PROVED WAS ONCE ONLY IMAGIND —WILLIAM BLAKE

Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

No, it's not Pluto. Get over it.

Since four coordinates are needed, we know that we live in a four-dimensional universe

But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify—a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe it.

Detecting without seeing was now a scientific reality.

after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

Leonardo da Vinci would be in full agreement: "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.

Children do not yet know that the world doesn't revolve around them.