“Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado”

“Solo somos una raza avanzada de monos....pero podemos comprender el universo”

“We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?”

“В 1277 году парижским епископом Темпьером, действующим по указанию Папы Иоанна XXI, был опубликован список 219 ошибок или ересей, которые считались неприемлемыми. В числе ересей, как вступающая в противоречие с идеей всемогущества Бога, находилась и гипотеза о природе, подчиняющейся законам. Интересно, что Папа Иоанн пал жертвой закона гравитации несколькими месяцами спустя, когда крыша его дворца обрушилась на него.”

“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!”

“Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.”

“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them”