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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.


Richard P. Feynman


#science #science

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?


George Orwell


#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.


Carl Sagan


#god #physical-laws #science #spirtuality #science

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.


Niels Bohr


#quantum-mechanics #reality #science #nature

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.


Ken Wilber


#science #science

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.


Nicholas Tharcher


#metaphysics #philosophy #acting

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.


Marianne Williamson


#pain #past #spiritual-growth #metaphysics

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.


Charles Simic


#poet #metaphysics

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.


Scott Adams


#attraction #emotional #financial #i #immediately

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.


Josef Albers


#artistic #artistic expression #color #expression #means