Shocking Sayings
1,935 sayings found from the Modern era
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his w…
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
Stop telling God what to do with his dice.
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
We are suspended in language.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our b…
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
The total number of minds in the universe is one.
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole.
I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am.
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies.
I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.
The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture.
Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind.
The present is the only thing that has no end.
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.