Michel Houellebecq Quotes

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

It's a cruel world, don't you think?

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.