The conception of objective reality … has thus evaporated … into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.
Werner Heisenberg
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
20AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Werner Heisenberg
19AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg
18AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Isaac Newton
17AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
16AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
15AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
14AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
13AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
12AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton