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- Reality is what won't go away when you stop beliving in it.
- Phillip K Dick
- There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
- Joe Keenan
- Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)
- "Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy? Do you get up every day and `go to work'?"
"Well, yeah. I try to get up every day." - Dick Cavett and Jimi Hendrix
- The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- [F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.
- Battaille
- Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
- Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.
- Werner Heisenberg
- We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg
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