Eleazar

“Which of the two possibilities corresponds to reality is simply unknown until a definite measurement is made, at which point the quantum state instantaneously changes to reflect the result of that measurement.”
― Leon M. Lederman, Quantum Physics for Poets

“[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature.”
― Brian Cox, Forces of Nature

“Desengáñate: de una cosa -aunque sea la mejor cosa del mundo- sólo pueden sacarse...cosas. Nadie es capaz de dar lo que no tiene, ¿verdad?, ni mucho menos nada puede dar más de lo que es.”
― Fernando Savater, Ética para Amador

“The use of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a fundamental theory was to have profound consequences, not just for the laws of nature but for the larger question of what a law of nature is. Before this, it was thought that the properties of the elementary particles are determined directly by eternally given laws of nature. But in a theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking, a new element enters, which is that the properties of the elementary particles depend in part on history and environment. The symmetry may break in different ways, depending on conditions like density and temperature. More generally, the properties of the elementary particles depend not just on the equations of the theory but on which solution to those equations applies to our universe.”
― Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next