Quotes About Reality

The fatal futility of Fact.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.