Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.
Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.
Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.
