The Science of the Craft Quotes

“Quantum physicist John Wheeler expressed it this way, when discussing the search for the clockwork mechanism that runs the world, "There may be no such thing as the 'glittering central mechanism of the universe' to be seen behind a glass wall at the end of the trail. Not machinery but magic may be the better description of the treasure that is waiting.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is reported to have said, "Whenever I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I want to reach for my gun.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“Spookier still, Bell's theorem has now been proven time after time after time. It took a few years to create lab equipment sensitive enough and accurate enough to make the necessary measurements, and they ultimately used photons rather than electrons for the experiments, but since the 1970s physicists have repeatedly confirmed the theory's predictions in the laboratory. Einstein and company was wrong; the Copenhagen gang was right. We create reality.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“His battle with Bohr and the other proponents of the Copenhagen interpretation lasted for years, right up to the time of Einstein's death. Bohr pointed out to Einstein that his own theory of relativity proved that time and space were not absolutes but depended on the observer's state of motion. Quantum theory simply took this dependence on the observer one step further by stating that reality itself was observer-dependent. Einstein's reply? "A good joke should not be repeated twice."22 The”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“Physicist Pascual Jordan added, "We ourselves produce the results of measurement." And, by extension, he meant reality itself.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“The atoms or the elementary particles are not real," Heisenberg said. "They form a world of potentialities and possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“But there was one thing more about quantum physics that thoroughly annoyed most of the scientists who truly understood its implications. Because it dealt so intimately with the nature of matter—and reality—quantum physics also had quite a few things to say about things that, until recently, were strictly the preserve, not of physics, but of metaphysics . . . of religion, and—whisper it softly—of philosophy.11”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“Does quantum physics really say, he asked, that the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it? He found the idea that matter was described by probabilities especially upsetting. "God does not play dice with the universe!" he declared. To which Bohr supposedly replied, "Albert, don't tell God what to do.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“By convention sour, by convention sweet, by convention colored; in reality, nothing but Atoms and the Void.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“It took a long time to get past the wall my demand for objective reality erected, but eventually I learned how to surrender my quest for reality and simply enjoy the experience for itself. And, slowly, I began to realize that "reality" was quite different, and a whole lot weirder, than I'd ever imagined possible.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“In other words, atoms and elementary particles and matter itself all are probabilities and possibilities, to which we ourselves give form.”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft

“I Think, Therefore, You Are”
― William H. Keith Jr., The Science of the Craft: Modern Realities in the Ancient Art of Witchcraft