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Quotes About Reality

Not a very pretty world, is it?" "Which one?
~ Andrew Smith
Joey threw a rock too. "Yep," he said. "You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.
~ Andrew Smith
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
~ Andrew Solomon
You don't think in depression that you've put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
~ Andrew Solomon
The Matrix doesn't want you to know this!
~ Andrew Tate
If a force can disappear purely because the point of view of the observer changes, then this means the force does not exist: it is dependent on the observer, it has no objective reality (i.e., not all observers experience it as real). It is not a real force. Therefore, Einstein realised gravity was just a fictitious force.
~ Andrew Thomas
An excellent definition can be found in the book Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner: "Whenever any property of a microscopic object affects a macroscopic object, that property is 'observed' and becomes a physical reality." For example, when a microscopic photon hits the macroscopic screen in the double-slit experiment, then
~ Andrew Thomas
By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.
~ Andrew Thomas
Why are there only three dimensions? It
~ Andrew Thomas
The first theme is "connectedness". Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.
~ Andrew Thomas
As string theorist Brian Greene says in The Elegant Universe: "Another possibility, should strings fail to be the final theory, is that they are one more layer in the cosmic onion.
~ Andrew Thomas
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Andrew Thomas
Quantum mechanics tells us that everything is connected as one object: the universe. And relativity tells us that the universe is the only thing that exists.
~ Andrew Thomas
Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.
~ Andrew Thomas
Downgrade the "now". Realise that the current moment is no more real than the past moments in your life.
~ Andrew Thomas
If a loved one dies, you might take some comfort from the knowledge that this period of time in which your loved one is dead has, in fact, no greater reality than the time when your loved one was alive. According to physics, it is just as valid to consider your loved one as alive as it is to consider them dead!
~ Andrew Thomas
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
~ Andrew Vachss
We live in a void, Prim. There is us and nothing else that is real, except that which we make. Reason is one of those things we invent to help us find our way. We have to find some goal. I have you and a comfortable life, and our family.
~ Andrew Wareham
He also thinks death is important. How can it be? It's the most commonplace thing on Earth, the
~ Andrew Wareham
But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Life, it turns out, isn't poetry! And do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Mylisz niebo z gwiazdami odbitymi nocÄ… na powierzchni stawu.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Prawda jest córÄ… czasu poczÄ™tÄ… w przypadkowym i krótkotrwaÅ'ym romansie ze zbiegiem okolicznoÅ›ci.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski