Marisha Pessl Quotes

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating.

The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.

I can't even begin to grasp concepts like the multiverse.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

The Universe in a Nutshell

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

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

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

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.