Carl Sagan Quote

If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some intermediate position, that would likely strike you as absurd, as contrary to experience. And yet on the subatomic level, there is a quantization of energy and position and momentum. The reason that it seems counterintuitive is that is that we are not ordinarily down at the level of the very small, where quantum effects dominate.


The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)


If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some...

If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some...

If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some...

If I were to propose to you that my arm could be in this position or in that position but it would be forbidden by the laws of nature to be in some...