Quotes About Reality

Roxanne Bland, The Underground

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Life is chemistry, not biology.

This was never what I wanted for us, but things change. Plans change. People change. I've faced the reality of my destiny and now I need to embrace that.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.

People are way too optimistic about the power they assume they have got to control how they are being perceived. They don't realize that none of the armours they wear is free of holes!

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.