Skip to content

A particle does one thing or another, and there's no reason... There's nothing in the previous history of the universe which tells it what to do.

— John Horton Conway The Free Will Lectures (2009)

Another quote →

Topics

History

More quotes by John Horton Conway

Most scientists until fairly recently are determinists.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

Neither of us could have done it without the other.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

We are planning a sequel... The Geometry of Low-Dimensional Groups and Lattices which will contain two earlier papers...

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (1988)

We don't think it's an illusion ...It's not ...We think we have free will.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

The Free Will Theorem [s]ays roughly, that "if... humans have free will, then so do the elementary particles outside us.

The Free Will Lectures (2009)

All John Horton Conway quotes →

You may also like

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Horton Conway (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.