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Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. ↗

— Erwin Schrödinger

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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

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If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. ↗

— J. Richard Gott III

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In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. ↗

— Michio Kaku

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. ↗

— Rivka Galchen

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve. ↗

— William James

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