Kevin Kelly Quotes

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, All that remains is more and more precise measurement

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Nature allows only experimental situations to occur which can be described within the framework of the formalism of quantum mechanics

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.