Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The hidden variables program, though mathematically possible, requires us to accept action at a distance."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The measurement problem in quantum mechanics remains deeply troubling."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Determinism and locality cannot both be true if quantum mechanics is correct."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Quantum mechanics forces us to reconsider what we mean by physical reality."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The behavior of quantum systems challenges our deepest metaphysical assumptions."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The nature of quantum measurement remains one of the deepest unresolved problems."
Bell, John Stewart
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"We cannot simply dismiss quantum non-locality as a mere mathematical artifact."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The non-locality revealed by quantum mechanics may be fundamental to the structure of reality."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Physics is a conversation between human reason and the natural world."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Entanglement suggests that the universe is more deeply interconnected than classical physics allows."
Bell, John Stewart
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"In confronting quantum mysteries, we confront the limits of human understanding itself."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The study of quantum foundations is the study of reality itself."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"What has to be renounced is only the naive materialism of the past centuries."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"A person is not a thing or a process, but an idea."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"We do not need a technological revolution; we need a spiritual revolution."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The paradoxes only arise because we insist on picturing all microphenomena by the classical pictures of physics."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"One cannot demand logical proof of the fact that the world is real."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The total number of minds in the universe is one."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness is a singularity phasing within each of us, and because of the way dissociation operates, that which is lost to awareness is nowhere to be found."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"One cannot divide the universe into observer and observed."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The plurality cannot be real; it cannot really be there."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The universe in its totality is a single, unified whole."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The universe is not composed of independent parts, but is fundamentally unified."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Science cannot answer the ultimate 'why' questions."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Reality is fundamentally mental in nature."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The universe consists of minds, not of matter."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness and matter are two aspects of one underlying reality."
Schrödinger, Erwin