"...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet."
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"The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece"
"Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists."
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."
"It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!"
"Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge."
"Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places."
"All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought."
"Order is heaven's first law."
"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it."
"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."
"The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively."
"The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension."
"Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape."
"Something deeply hidden had to be behind things."
"And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit."
"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
"The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space."
"He needs "space"and "time,"as if this were physics and not a human relationship."