#physics

We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give. ↗

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

#physics #science #spirit #symbolism #nature

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #philosophical

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#quantum-physics #identity

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. ↗

— David R. Brower

#cancer #dna #dreaming #how #keep

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#carried #clearly #consciousness #end #experiments

I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#another #answer #been #building #cannot

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#accident #addition #correct #experiments #just

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. ↗

— John Cameron

#department #first #i #medical #medical physics

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them. ↗

— John Cameron

#communicate #encourage #i #interested #like

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely