Philosophy Quotes

"Consciousness is what binds the universe together."

"Consciousness is the bridge between the objective and subjective worlds."

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities."

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

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact, the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms."

"The scientist only imposes his own thought-forms onto nature."

"The analysis of the quantum mechanical uncertainty relation is in the tradition of idealistic philosophy."

"The observer creates reality through his act of observation."

"The fact that we live in three dimensions might be a fact about the structure of thought."

"The questions that concern us most are precisely those which science cannot answer."

"The fact is that all the problems of quantum mechanics vanish when we base ourselves on what is here and now."

"The division of the world into subject and object, inner world and outer world, is a division suggested by the structure of our bodies."

"The attempt to describe the role of consciousness in the reduction of the wave function leads to paradoxes."

"The scientist belongs to a tradition that is sometimes called the tradition of Western rationalism."

"The world of atoms and elementary particles is a world of possibilities rather than realities."

"The physicist and the mystic have often arrived at the same truth, though by different paths."

"We are caught in a web of interactions with the world around us, and our thoughts are not independent of those interactions."

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

"Language is not only a tool for expression but also a constraint on what can be thought."

"We are hanging in mid-air between two clouds, knowing neither their destination nor their origin."

"The intuitionist does not accept the axiom of the excluded middle."

"Mathematics expresses the deepest truths about existence."

"Mathematics teaches us profound lessons about the nature of reality."

"The structure of mathematics mirrors the structure of thought."

"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."

"One must learn to think in abstraction and act in the concrete."

"Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy."

"Mathematics bridges the gap between the possible and the actual."

"Mathematics is the crystallization of human thought."