Adam Forrest Kay > Quotes

“in J. B. S. Haldane’s maxim: “The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we can imagine.”
― Adam Forrest Kay, Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory

“of our time imprisons us, for every prisoner has believed that outside his walls a free world existed; but now the prison has become the whole universe.… Why live in such a world? Why even die?”
― Adam Forrest Kay, Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory

“The day will yet come when the progress of research through long ages will reveal to sight the mysteries of nature that are now concealed.”
― Adam Forrest Kay, Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory

“Alone in my tower at midnight, I remember the woods and downs, the sea and sky, that daylight showed. Now, as I look through each of the four windows, north, south, east and west, I see only myself dimly reflected, or shadowed in monstrous opacity upon the fog.… It seemed that what we had thought of as laws of nature were only linguistic conventions, and that physics was not really concerned with an external world. The revolutions of nebulae, the birth and death of stars, are no more than convenient fictions in the trivial work of linking together my own sensations.… No dungeon was ever constructed so dark and narrow as that in which the shadow physics”
― Adam Forrest Kay, Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory