A Quote by John Gribbin

Nothing is real unless it is observed

John Gribbin

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Nothing Observed Real Unless

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John Gribbin
British - Writer
Born: March 19, 1946

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

L. Ron Hubbard

The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.

Edward Everett Hale

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Boethius

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

Stephen Hawking

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Plato

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

John Steinbeck

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Stefan Zweig

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.