Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.