Classical science,
the mythical science of a simple, passive world, belongs to the past, killed not by philosophical criticism or empiricist resignation but by the internal development of science itself. (Ilya Prigogine)
Quality is scientific reality.
Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context.
(Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance")
The true physics
is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.
(Pierre Teilhard De Chardin "The Phenomenon of Man")
An investment in knowledge
pays the best interest.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Physics
gives rise to observer-participancy; observer-participancy gives rise to information; and information gives rise to physics.
(John Archibald Wheeler)
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
(Richard P. Feynman)
The kind but bewildered listener
will often simply feign an understanding; however, this ruse is easy to detect, for they will not display the appropriate amount of consternation at the final result!
(Paul Kwiat & Lucien Hardy “The mystery of the quantum cakes”)
The universe
is not big enough to contain the future.
(Leroy Cronin)
