435 quotes found
“For scientists, reality is not optional.”
“Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.”
“YOU DEMAND SALVATION EVEN AS YOU STEAL FROM THE COLLECTION PLATE.YOU SEND FOOD TO THE REFUGEES, AND THEN YOU DON'T ALLOW THE DELIVERY TRUCKS THROUGH THE WARZONES. THE FOOD WILL SPOIL , THE SUPPLIES...”
“Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.”
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, m...”
“The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes ...”
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
“When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.”
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”
“The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”
“Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.”
“People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.”
“It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewc...”
“People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.”
“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”
“The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.”
