Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The holographic principle suggests that reality might be fundamentally two-dimensional, which is quite humbling for those of us studying three-dimensional gravity."
Juan Maldacena
"We are all connected through the fundamental laws of nature."
David Gross
"Understanding ourselves requires understanding the universe."
David Gross
"We are made of stardust, connected to everything."
David Gross
"We are all participants in the grand experiment of existence."
David Gross
"We are all made of the same cosmic material."
David Gross
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"Philosophy and physics ask the same questions from different angles."
Frank Wilczek
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"Philosophy asks 'why'; science answers 'how'; together they illuminate existence."
Frank Wilczek
"Every atom in your body was once forged in the heart of a star."
Brian Greene
"We are temporary arrangements of matter that can contemplate the eternal."
Brian Greene
"Our place in the cosmos is small but meaningful."
Brian Greene
"Relativity teaches us that perspective shapes reality."
Brian Greene
"The universe is both infinitely large and infinitesimally small."
Brian Greene
"The search for meaning is humanity's deepest quest."
Brian Greene
"The unexamined universe is not worth living in."
Brian Greene
"We are ambassadors of the universe becoming conscious of itself."
Brian Greene
"Time may be an illusion born from human perception."
Brian Greene
"The universe grants us consciousness—our greatest mystery."
Brian Greene
"We are made of the universe's attempt to understand itself."
Brian Greene
"Our cosmic insignificance is paradoxically profoundly significant."
Brian Greene
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"Philosophy and physics are two faces of the same inquiry."
Abdus Salam
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"Philosophy asks the questions that science then investigates."
Abdus Salam
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"We should embrace the possibility that reality is radically different from our intuitive expectations."
Lisa Randall
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"The questions we ask about reality are shaped by the instruments we build and the mathematics we develop."
Lisa Randall
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"The universe's apparent fine-tuning for life may require us to rethink fundamental assumptions about necessity and chance."
Lisa Randall
L
"We must be willing to accept that some truths about the universe may forever resist complete human understanding."
Lisa Randall
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"The questions we can ask about the cosmos are constrained by the theories and technologies we possess."
Lisa Randall
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"The universe's age, size, and structure dwarf human concerns, placing our existence in proper perspective."
Lisa Randall
"Religion is an insult to morality. It says, instead of 'Don't steal, don't kill' the law says you must follow God. But a man can say 'I used to think it was wrong to kill, but God told me to do it.'"
Steven Weinberg
"I wanted to find an explanation of why I'm here, why the world is constructed the way it is. But I don't think we're going to find a cosmological explanation."
Steven Weinberg