
“I believe in the universality of freedom.”
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Letter Accepting 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prizefrom (2018)
“I believe in the universality of freedom.”
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 17.
"The Quantum State of the Universe", Nuclear Physics (1984) <!-- B239, p. 258 -->
Context: Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete freedom to start the universe off any way it wanted. That may be so, but it could also have made it evolve in a completely arbitrary and random manner. Yet all the evidence is that it evolves in a regular way according to certain laws. It would therefore seem reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the boundary conditions.
The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.
Quoted in "Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson" (1952), Random House. Republished in the New York Times, "Books of the Times", by Charles Poore, April 20, 1953, p. 23
“Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)
"Computing a Theory of Everything" (2010)
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)