#real

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#quantum-mechanics #reality #science #nature

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#rationality #reality #science #ufos #unreality

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. ↗

— David Eagleman

#reality #science #science

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#future-prediction #reality #science-fiction #science

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#realize #science-fiction #science

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#real

Justice is what is good for the stronger. ↗

— Thrasymachus

#political-science #realism #science

Why is it that when you don't want to think about something, you can't stop thinking about it? ↗

— Stella Lennon

#teens #teen

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better? ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#injuries #memory #past #reality #scars