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Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.

Metaphysics is a science.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.