Sublime

if such a theory survives the criticism, it leaves less unexplained – which is the object of the exercise.

Maybe his Midwestern upbringing and the tiny college he went to encouraged his self-reliance and taught him that the surest kind of knowledge is what you construct yourself.

We understand the fabric of reality only by understanding theories that explain it.

Max Planck stated that the existence of the field suggests that intelligence is responsible for our physical world. “We must assume behind this force [that we see as matter] the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.” He concluded, “This Mind is the matrix of all matter [author’s brackets and italics].”15

Thereafter it is not its state but its responses to the user’s actions that have to be faithful.

we now possess some extremely deep theories about the structure of reality.

One of Gödel’s assumptions was the traditional one that a proof can have only a finite number of steps.

Working out what Bohm’s invisible wave will do requires the same computations as working out what trillions of shadow photons will do.

“In principle, it should make no difference whether the correlation between twin particles occurs when they are separated by a few meters or by the entire universe,”