#physics

Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all? Stephen Hawking ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #equality

Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#physics

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ↗

— Woody Allen

#metaphysics #philosophy #philosophy

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#zen #metaphysics

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #metaphysics #philosophy #poetry #self-esteem

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#metaphysics #science #science

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#backward #begin #believed #epochs #i

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. ↗

— James Cronin

#did #direction #experimental #i #nuclear

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#chemistry #completely #complex #difficulty #equations

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted. ↗

— Fred Durst

#addicted #ago #anyone #anything #around