Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
There is no essential distinction between scientific measures and the measures of the senses. In either case our acquaintance with the external world comes to us through material channels; the observer's body may be regarded as part of his laboratory equipment.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress--No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
A society of learned fishes would probably agree that phenomena were best described from the point of view of a fish at rest in the ocean.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge -- and a very good dodge too.