Quotes About Reality

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

Perception defines everything.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

I think science is real.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.