Quotes About Reality

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

Tribble recalled that he adopted the phrase from the "Menagerie" episodes of Star Trek, "in which the aliens create their own new world through sheer mental force." He meant the phrase to be a compliment as well as a caution: "It was dangerous to get caught in Steve's distortion field, but it was what led him to actually be able to change reality.

Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it. We would often discuss potential techniques for grounding it, but after a while most of us gave up, accepting it as a force of nature.

he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.

By exalting the interplay between art and science, Leonardo wove an argument that was integral to understanding his genius: that true creativity involves the ability to combine observation with imagination, thereby blurring the border between reality and fantasy. A great painter depicts both, he said.

In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is," Bohr declared. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."62 This

Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator.

Reality is unforgiving.

veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory

Visions without execution are hallucinations.31

Innovation requires a reality distortion field.

Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. "I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated. "Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving.

The awful reality was that upcoming events like St. Patrick's Day and March Madness (Memphis was in the 2009 tournament and was a regional site) offered a greater likelihood of getting a donor because the drinking causes a spike in car accidents.

The obvious yet still astonishing conclusion: with no such thing as absolute simultaneity, there is no such thing as "real" or absolute time.

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

Einstein creía que existía una realidad armónica tras las leyes del universo y que el objetivo de la ciencia era descubrirla.

Todo conocimiento de la realidad parte de la experiencia y acaba en ella.

Einstein's great strength: he could look at a complex mathematical equation, which for others was merely an abstraction, and picture the physical reality that lay behind it.

The resulting four-page paper, published in May 1935 and known by the initials of its authors as the EPR paper, was the most important paper Einstein would write after moving to America. "Can the Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Regarded as Complete?" they asked in their title.

En su madurez, Einstein creía más firmemente que había una realidad «objetiva» que existía con independencia de que nosotros pudiésemos observarla o no. La creencia en un mundo externo independiente de la persona que lo observaba —diría repetidamente— era la base de toda ciencia.

For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all.

Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.

We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.