Philosophy Quotes

"What is real is not what we can touch, but what we can understand."

"To know nature, we must become nature."

"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy."

"The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real."

"The world is given to me only once. Not one existing and one perceived."

"My task is only to think about the world picture that the physicist has to form."

"The plurality we see is merely an appearance."

"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence."

"We are not just nature, we are our concept of nature."

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."

"There is a profound difference between the physical world and our perception of it."

"The world exists for each of us only so far as our perception creates it."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"The logic of physics should represent a reconstruction, idealized and generalized, of the logic in which physicists habitually think."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"The great mystery of existence is that anything exists at all."

"The principle of parsimony dictates that we should prefer simpler explanations over complex ones."

"Philosophy is the attempt to understand the fundamental nature of reality."

"Philosophy asks the questions that science cannot answer."

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

"The goal of physics is not to understand nature, but to understand our understanding of nature."

"The universe is not made of matter, but of mathematics."

"The foundation of all knowledge is wonder."

"The complementarity principle extends beyond physics into all aspects of life."

"The universe does not require our permission to exist."

"I believe it is desirable to separate the question of the correctness of a theory from the question of its applications."

"Simple philosophical ideas lie at the basis of all our observations."

"One can think of the universe as being built up of separate identifiable portions."

"An observer is never truly separate from what is being observed."

"One of the stranger aspects of life is that one cannot make purely destructive contributions."