Hugh Everett Quotes

If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas. ~ Hugh Everett III

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be. ~ Kevin Michel

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories. ~ Hugh Everett III

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world. ~ Hugh Everett III

One possible solution to the grandfather paradox is the theory of multiverse originally set forth by Hugh Everett. According to multiverse theory, every version of our past and future histories exists, just in an alternate universe.

For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. This means that for every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice.

The theory neatly solves the grandfather paradox by posting separate universes in which each possible outcome exists, thereby avoiding a paradox.

In this way we get to live multiple lives.

There is, for example, a universe where Samuel Kingsley does not derail his daughter's life. A universe where he does derail it but Natasha is able to fix it. A universe where he does derail it and she is not able to fix it. Natasha is not quite sure which universe she's living in now. ~ Nicola Yoon

This really drove home to me that Hugh Everett was no exception: studying the foundations of physics isn't a recipe for glamour and fame. It's more like art: the best reason to do it is because you love it. Only a small minority of my physics colleagues choose to work on the really big questions, and when I meet them, I feel a real kinship. I imagine that a group of friends who've passed up on lucrative career options to become poets might fell a similar bond, knowing that they're all in it not for the money but for the intellectual adventure. ~ Max Tegmark

Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right? ~ Hugh Prather

Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact. ~ Hugh Howey

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from ~ Edward Everett Hale

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. ~ Hugh Sidey

Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare. ~ Hugh Howey

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over. ~ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it. ~ Hugh Laurie

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure. ~ Hugh Prather

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. ~ Rupert Everett

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live. ~ Everett Ruess

The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of. ~ Hugh Howey

Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same. ~ Hugh Hood

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line. ~ Hugh Bonneville

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda. ~ Charles Hugh Smith

our "gathering" - or what people used to call "church" - is an aspect of what we do, but not the only thing. The gathering is where we . . . gather. That's it. It's a place that anyone can come to and not feel any pressure at any level. ~ Hugh Halter

My best pick-up line is My name is Hugh Hefner. ~ Hugh Hefner

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. ~ Hugh Sidey

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back. ~ Rupert Everett

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. ~ Hugh Laurie

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ~ Arthur Hugh Clough

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus. ~ Hugh Martin

As we go forward in life, we come more and more to realize the wisdom of being obedient, not because we are afraid of the law, but because we recognize the importance, wisdom, and necessity of law in civilized life. Freedom within the law is indispensable if your life is to be rich and radiant. Liberty is a prized possession, which should be jealously guarded, but it may be jeopardized by disobedience. We should not assume that liberty and license are synonymous.

Sometimes we find people of all ages who resent regulations, restraints, or prohibitions of any kind. They seem to assume that rebellious disregard for rules or laws indicates emancipation and independence. In a foolish attempt to demonstrate their freedom they lose it, forgetting that real liberty can only be enjoyed by obedience to law.

Consider for a moment our traffic laws, with their daily toll of suffering, loss, and death. It must be evident to all that these laws are enacted and enforced for the good and protection of people and property. Is it not, therefore, foolhardy to endanger oneself and others simply to show one's independence or importance. Of course, we may disregard the traffic laws, drive on the wrong side of the street, exceed speed limits, go through red lights, just for the satisfaction of showing off and doing as we please, but if we continue to act in such an irresponsible manner, we must eventually pay a price all out of proportion to any momentary satisfaction. . . .
Hugh B. Brown

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex. ~ Carl Everett

they didn't want people talking.
Thinking was fine; they would bury you with your thoughts.
But no collaboration, no groups coordinating together, no change of ideas. ~ Hugh Howey

What kind of fanatical devotion would it take to maintain this depressing illusion? ~ Hugh Howey

Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold. ~ Ilona Andrews

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends. ~ Robert Hugh Benson

If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow. ~ Hugh Hefner

I think it would take [Paul] Ryan. I don't know if [Mitch] McConnell has the standing in the party. But you know, just quickly, Hugh, you know, politically, first of all, this should not be a time to politicize this event the way it has been. But there, you have the President blaming Christians, Republicans and everyone except ... ~ Bret Stephens

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't. ~ Hugh Prather

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural. ~ Hugh Masekela

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city. ~ Hugh Grant

A Poem of Madness Five links stand out in the chain that binds our will. There's the primal urges, wound tight in nucleotidal strands. There's the faith that surges through our clasped and superstitious hands. There's the politics of kings and queens, and their many rules. There's culture which forms mobs of motley fools. Last comes our decisions, stacked up in piles of regret that we long to forget. ~ Hugh Howey

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. ~ Hugh Hopper

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before. ~ Hugh Grant

It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall. ~ Arthur Hugh Clough

He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands. ~ Edward Everett Hale

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now? ~ Hugh MacLeod

It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. ~ Richelle Mead

Do you remember that I said I have something to show you?"
Back when they were entering the house. Before she'd seen Hugh. Before their argument. "Yes?"
He pushed open the door to her bedroom. "Look."
She went inside and saw Valente sitting on the floor in front of her fireplace with a basket. He had a silly grin on his face.
She glanced over her shoulder to Raphael. "What-?"
Her husband tilted his chin toward Valente and the basket. "Go and see."
At the same time she heard an animal whimper.
Her lips parted and she picked up her skirts to hurry to the basket. It was lined with a soft blanket and inside was the sweetest little blond puppy, looking very sorry for itself.
Iris stared, torn. Did Raphael think a 'puppy' would be an adequate substitution for him?
The moment the puppy saw her it began whimpering and yipping, trying to climb from its wicker prison, but its legs were too short to make the attempt and it ended by falling backward, revealing that it was female.
It was hardly the puppy's fault that she was angry with Raphael.
"Oh," Iris breathed, sinking to her knees on the carpet opposite Valente. "She's perfect."
Somehow the words made tears start in her eyes again.
She picked up the puppy, which wriggled in Iris's hands until she held the small animal against her chest. The puppy promptly began licking Iris's chin with a tiny pink tongue.
Iris looked up at Raphael through her tears. "What is her ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures. ~ Hugh Prather

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ~ Ellis Peters

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. ~ Hugh Hopper

It wasn't until after the body was scarred by a brush with danger that it learned fear. Conner thought of all the untouched places on his soul yet to teach him something. All the unblemished parts of him waiting for that razor of truth. ~ Hugh Howey

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you. ~ Rupert Everett

I know it is fiction to imagine, but what would happen if we stood on the rubble of attacks against us, whether literal or figurative, physical or emotional, personal or political, and we chose to forgive rather than escalate? What does that world look like? Maybe we'll never know. But I like to pretend. ~ Hugh Howey