Multiverse Quotes

“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is at the controls? Like some mad pilot has locked you out of the cockpit? I definitely do. I feel a kind of vertigo that makes me shake afterwards. I guess we all feel it when making a difficult-seeming choice, and sometimes you seriously don't know what you want because you don't know who you're supposed to be, or who you want to be. Physics, my first and second families, my philosophy degree, had all failed to help me answer that question. The former has led me to wonder whether I am one of an infinite number of Alices in multiple universes. A quantum fuck-up, which is someone who fucks up in every one of those universes but in different ways.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.”
― Gaby Dunn, Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1

“Being present is being connected to All Things.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“If the multiverse turns out to be the best explanation of the fundamental physical constants, it would not be the first time we have been flabbergasted by worlds beyond our noses. Our ancestors had to swallow the discovery of the Western Hemisphere, eight other planets, a hundred billion stars in our galaxy (many with planets), and a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. If reason contradicts intuition once again, so much the worse for intuition. Another advocate of the multiverse, Brian Greene, reminds us:
“From a quaint, small, earth-centered universe to one filled with billions of galaxies, the journey has been both thrilling and humbling. We’ve been compelled to relinquish sacred belief in our own centrality, but with such cosmic demotion we’ve demonstrated the capacity of the human intellect to reach far beyond the confines of ordinary experience to reveal extraordinary truth.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.”
― Alan H. Guth

“She slammed an angry fist into the light metal field table. A stack of datapads bounced and fell to the ground. “Damn it! Find me legitimate targets so I can kill them!”
― Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs.

With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case.”
― David Klinghoffer

“Jagad raya ini terdiri atas banyak alam semesta. Semuanya eksis sekaligus dalam suatu medium tunggal yang kami sebut sebagai roomental. Roomental sendiri adalah partikel unik yang bersifat tunggal dan gabungan. Dalam level roomental sudah ada ruang, tapi bukan dalam pengertian ‘ruang’ seperti persepsimu saat ini. Ruang yang kau persepsikan saat ini dibentuk oleh suatu partikel yang membentuk elektron dan positron. Baik elektron maupun positron, keduanya masih jauh lebih besar daripada ukuran partikel penyusun semesta ini.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Silitonga had shown that the smallest change imaginable would eventually have global repercussions. For a hypothetical time traveler who wanted to prevent Hitler’s rise to power, the minimal intervention wasn’t smothering the baby Adolf in his crib; all that was needed was to travel back to a month before his conception and disturb an oxygen molecule. Not only would this replace Adolf with a sibling, it would replace everyone his age or younger. By 1920 that would have composed half of the world’s population.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“Atlantis sinks.

Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many strands: an island off Greece, a mid-Atlantic continent, an advanced pre-Minoan civilization on Crete, a spaceship floating north of Egypt, on and on. Most strands lack Atlantis altogether, know the place only through dreams and mad poets’ madder whispers.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“If we say that an individual's character is revealed by the choices they make over time, then, in a similar fashion, an individual's character would also be revealed by the choices they make across many worlds.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“Branches are generated by any quantum event, right? Even before we had prisms, branches were still splitting off constantly; we just didn’t have access to any of them. If it were true that there’s always a branch where you pick up a gun and shoot someone on a whim, then we should have seen the same number of random murders every day before the prism was invented as we saw every day after. The invention of prisms wouldn’t cause more of those murders to line up in this particular branch. So if we’re seeing more people killing one another since prisms became popular, it can’t be because there’s always a branch where you pick up a gun.” “I follow your reasoning,” said Zareenah, “but then what’s causing the rise in murders?” Kevin shrugged. “It’s like a suicide fad. People hear about other people doing it, and it gives them ideas.” Nat thought about it. “That proves that the argument can’t be right, but it doesn’t explain why it’s wrong.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“In discussions about free will, a lot of people say that for an action of yours to be freely chosen - for you to bear moral responsibility for that action - you must have had the ability to do something else under exactly the same circumstances.”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“I’m not sure about the math,” said Dana. “But I definitely think that your choices matter. Every decision you make contributes to your character and shapes the kind of person you are. If you want to be someone who always gives the extra money back to the cashier, the actions you take now affect whether you’ll become that person. “The branch where you’re having a bad day and keep the extra change is one that split off in the past; your actions can’t affect it anymore. But if you act compassionately in this branch, that’s still meaningful, because it has an effect on the branches that will split off in the future. The more often you make compassionate choices, the less likely it is that you’ll make selfish choices in the future, even in the branches where you’re having a bad day.” “That sounds good, but—” Nat thought about how years of acting a certain way could wear ruts in a person’s brain, so that you would keep slipping into the same habits without trying to. “But it’s not easy,” said Nat. “I know it’s not,” said Dana. “But the question was, given that we know about other branches, whether making good choices is worth doing. I think it absolutely”
― Ted Chiang, Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

“They have opened a gate to the lower planes in this outer cave,” Avernil explained. “Nvisi says the barrier between the planes—”

“The Faerzress,” Zak interjected.

“We call it the Mezzonel, the winding fabric of Piu.”

“Piu?”

“Piu . . .” Avernil lifted his gaze and his arm, looking all around, sweeping his arm as he did. “The Everything. All that is and all that will ever be. Piu.”

Zak nodded. “The multiverse.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Lolth's Warrior

“The soul, is that which propagates across the cosmic field and is connected to all of existence. And let me tell you, your soul, is a powerful soul.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“At a workshop attended by expert researchers in quantum mechanichs in 1997, Max Tegmark took an admittedly highly unscienfific poll of the participants' favored interpretation of quantum mechanics. The Copenhagen interpretation came in first with thirteen votes, while the many-worlds interpretation came in second with eight. Another nine votes were scattered among other alternatives. Most interesting, eighteen votes were cast for "None of the above/undecided." And these are the experts.”
― Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

“La única manera de aprender es vivir”
― Matt Haig, A BIBLIOTECA DA MEIA NOITE COMO PARAR O TEMPO

“If we calculated the possibility of a googolplex possible accidental universes (created somehow just of themselves) as ours is and divided it by the needed level of fine-tuning, we would find out that any imaginable number would not be enough to organize and sustain itself to the level of fine-tuning required for the Universe as ours is or any similar universe. In other words, its complexity, fine-tuning, or structure almost borders infinity. Any imaginable number of universes would not be enough to account for all possible variations needed for only one finely-tuned Universe.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“How is this universe possible if infinite variations are needed? The whole meaning and beauty lie in the fact that it is possible and finely tuned. However, it can only be new in a new birth or rebirth to secure an infinite development and meaning of existence and life through chance—the source of infinity or endless potential. Otherwise, it would always be the same or a wholly programmed different universe without free will, but our Universe has free will. Chance itself is the source of infinity and the potential for variations.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“• The absolute “number” of possibilities is the Absolute itself because it contains this potential.
• The absolute “number” of possibilities is infinity itself.
• The absolute “number” of possibilities is needed not for infinity but for any particular manifestation of the Absolute in the form such as the Universe.
• Any such universe, or the manifestation of the Absolute, requires the absolute number of possibilities to exist meaningfully as a high complexity.
• The absolute number of possibilities is absolute potential.
• The potential of the Absolute is both infinite and eternal.
• The absolute “number” is infinity.
• Absolute “number” is numberless.
• Infinity is nonexistent. It is zero.
• Zero is a gateway.
• Zero is the Wormhole from the Universal Mind to the “Material” World-Universe.
• Possibilities are possible only when they are not zero.
• Passage through the Zero is the birth of possibilities.
• The present is an eternity.
• The victory of the finite possibility over infinity is the birth of life and existence.
• Victory over eternity (absolute time or space) is time's birth.
• Victory over the infinite space of zero is the birth of space.
• The Finitude of the Being makes infinity.
• Infinity in itself is nothing.
• Infinity of the Being is a never-ending process, never-ending life or existence.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Time doesn't only flow forward; it also flows backward.”
― Joey Lawsin, Inscription by Design

“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no creatures similar to us exist at all. In which the human race doesn't exist at all. There are an infinite number of universes, for instance, in which flowers are the predominant form of life -or in which no form of life has ever developed or will develop.”
― Fredric Brown, "FREDRIC BROWN" BOOKS: What Mad Universe / Space on My Hands / Honeymoon in Hell

“There is a six-forked path ahead of us. Each path represents a possible future and a major paradigm shift for humanity. But we must act now. In 1924, Winston Churchill said, ‘The prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavor.’ History shows us what happens when we avoid, appease, and procrastinate while the seeds of that epic catastrophe grow stronger by the day.”
― J.J. Wisdom, G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I.

“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature”
― Albertus Magnus

“Sometimes I even wonder if I am the only one truly existing, if the world around me is merely an intricate illusion formed by light, reflection, and perception. It could be that there are infinite universes, each branching endlessly, each holding different versions of reality.”
― Sajal Garg, Glimpses of My Worldview

“Gary Tolan is a great man because he stands firm in his purpose, moves with integrity, and builds his life with intention—not noise”
― Gary Tolan aka King Tolan