[Discussion] [OT]: Who's Tagline?: Reality Is ...

Phil Parker phil at math.wichita.edu
Sun Jan 21 03:46:14 PST 2007


On 08/01/2006 at 04:44 PM, "Stanley Sidlov" <stanleys at cybernex.net> wrote:

>Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it.-- Steven
>Pinker

I'm so far behind the times, I just noticed this. It was Philip K. Dick, the
SF author, in the late 1970s or early 1980s originally, and slightly
differently worded:

  Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.

-- 
    Phil Parker
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