“Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.” WorldGivingMayMeanWould BeLawScienceGiving UpRegardProofStrictProbabilityMetaphysicalMechanicHypothesisAttemptingQuantum MechanicsTheoristsCausalityStrict Laws Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.” NeedsRealityLawCertainThreePrinciplesConsequenceMathematicsFundamentalsPropertySimplicityPhysicsInteractionMetaphysicalParticlesCriteriaEffectivenessDescribingUnreasonableLaws Of Physics Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.” ThinkingTryingWellsMayFactsPastLawStrangeEqualDegreesFundamentalsOpeningOur ThoughtsBackwardsMetaphysicalOpening Up Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking