Tag Archive for: metaphysics

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

Niels Bohr

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

Nikola Tesla

"Space exists only in your imagination."

Unbekannt

"It's perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe. The answer lies in a peculiar feature of cosmological physics that is not often remarked. A crucial function of theories such as dark matter, dark energy and inflation—each in its own way tied to the big bang paradigm—is not to describe known empirical phenomena but rather to maintain the mathematical coherence of the framework itself while accounting for discrepant observations. Fundamentally, they are names for something that must exist insofar as the framework is assumed to be universally valid."

Bjørn Ekeberg

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Albert Einstein

"A physical law must possess mathematical beauty,"

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

"Magic is real. And reality... it is magical."

Aleister Crowley

"My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings."

Aleister Crowley

"What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none."

Philip Plait

"Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough."

Philip Plait

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

"Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists."

Nikola Tesla

"Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science."

Karl Popper

"With the insights of modern physics, natural science has reached a point where it must abandon the idea that it could explain everything."

Hans-Peter Dürr

"As such, science stumbles upon an unknowable and mysterious essence that escapes logical explanation and which can be described only in the language of poetry and metaphor."

Mattias Desmet