Rodrigo Camargo

“in experimental quantum mechanics we have run right up against what was previously perceived to be a purely philosophical barrier. The experiments are telling us that we can know nothing of reality-in-itself. We have to accept that the properties we ascribe to quantum particles like photons, such as energy, frequency, spin, polarization, position (‘here’ or ‘there’), are properties that have no meaning except in relation to a measuring device that allows them to be projected into our empirical reality of experience. We can no longer assume that the properties we measure necessarily reflect or represent the properties of the particles as they really are.”
― Jim Baggott, Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“Los adultos siguen caminos. Los niños exploran. A los adultos les gusta recorrer siempre el mismo camino, cientos de veces, o miles; puede que nunca se les ocurra salirse de su ruta, arrastrarse bajo los rododendros, encontrar huecos en las vallas.”
― Neil Gaiman, El océano al final del camino

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein”
― Jim Baggott, Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth