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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

I’m very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don’t really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It’s about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

God does not play dice [with the universe].[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows ‘tendencies’ to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It’s extraordinary. There’s a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that’s wonderful.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

I’m really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren’t, so I’m trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It’s fun.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don’t try out. Besides, uh, I don’t believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

Bohm’s interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist. All points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property ‘nonlocality.’

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

It’s starting to catch hold, and in large measure it’s because we’re starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That’s a 20th century phenomenon also.

To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn’t anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility.

Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don’t go calling it nasty names like ‘bizarre’ or ‘incredible’. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not ‘weird’. You are weird.

I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I’m talking to you from a deeper basic understanding – quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can’t have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. … In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

I’ve always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.