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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black. ↗


— Terry Eagleton


#metaphysics #metaphysics

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist. ↗


— Federico Fellini


#cinema #metaphysics

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way. ↗


— Joanna Gawn


#metaphysical #visionary #metaphysics

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point. ↗


— Bill Bryson


#matter #physics #liberalism

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗


— Bill Gaede


#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗


— Wietse Venema


#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. ↗


— Albert Einstein


#laws #physics #possible #should

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ↗


— Voltaire


#himself #metaphysics #speaks #understand #who

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. ↗


— Edward Witten


#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. ↗


— Edward Witten


#brought #fuzziness #into #mechanics #physics






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