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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics) QUOTES

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics) QUOTES

1 " Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What we perceive depends upon what we look for.
What we look for depends upon what we think.
What we think depends upon what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

2 " You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It’s too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it’s important. You must feel the thing yourself… "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

3 " The value of a physical theory depends upon its usefulness. In this sense the history of physical theories might be said to resemble the history of individual personality traits. Most of us respond to our environment with a collection of automatic responses that once brought desirable results, usually in childhood. Unfortunately, if the environment that produced these responses changes (we grow up) and the responses themselves do not adapt, they become counterproductive. Showing anger, becoming depressed, flattering, crying, and bullying behavior are response patterns appropriate to times often long past. These patterns change only when we are forced to realize that they are no longer productive. Even then change is often painful and slow. The same is true of scientific theories. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

4 " If this is so, then the distinction between scientists, poets, painters, and writers is not clear. In fact, it is possible that scientists, poets, painters, and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call commonplace and to re-present them to us in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Those people in whom this gift is especially pronounced, we call geniuses. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

5 " The subjective experience of wonder is a message to the rational mind that the object of wonder is being perceived and understood in ways other than the rational. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

6 " One of the features of quantum mechanics that leads to such controversy is its concern with the nonexistent, the potential. There is some of this in all language, or words could only be used once, but quantum mechanics is more involved with probabilities than classical mechanics. Some people feel this discredits quantum theory, makes it less than maximal theory. So it is important to mention in defense of quantum theory that in spite of indeterminacy, quantum mechanics can be entirely expressed in yes-or-no terms about individual experiments, just like classical mechanics, and that probabilities can be derived as a law of large numbers and need not be postulated. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)

7 " Some experiments show that light is wave-like. Other experiments show equally well that light is particle-like. If we want to demonstrate that light is a particle-like phenomenon or that light is a wave-like phenomenon, we only need to select the appropriate experiment. "

― Gary Zukav , Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (Perennial Classics)