Quotes About Reality

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

What is is what must be.

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.