Quotes About Illusion

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

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.

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.

The fatal futility of Fact.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Science is just magic with better PR.

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.

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.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

If you don't believe in time, your day will be longer (because reality time is an illusion, it exist only because of us and if we don't exist time doesn't exist!?)

There is no such thing as reality, only our perception of it.

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction

All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.

From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.