Reality - Quotes
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It’s an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it - and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.
So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Reality means you live until you die. [...] The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.
You know you`re in love when you can`t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.