Quotes About Reality

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

Metaphysics is a science.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.