| The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922. |
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Talmud |
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher 1788-1860 |
| The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of
true art and true science.
Albert Einstein, in: Ideas and Opinions. |
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| I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955. |
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Science without Religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind.
Albert Einstein. |
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin!
Boldness has genius, magic and power within.
Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-1832. |
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Science is the systematic quest for knowledge and understanding, whatever the topic, and wherever it leads.
Kathleen Erickson, interview SSE. |
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It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake;
it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.
Willem van Oranje, prince of the Netherlands, 1533-1584. |
| I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of
regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961. |
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I tell you there's a monster, like all that is darkening and heavy and obstructive in life. It is matter and darkness, it is the anti-soul,
it is the ruling power of this land: stupidity.
H.G.Wells, writer, 1866-1946. |
| If the brain were so simple we could understand it,
we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson, biologist and writer. |
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, 1813-1855. |
| The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
Anagarika Govinda, 1898-1985, in: The Way of the White Clouds. |
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There is a fund of knowledge, a
different kind of information, common
to all people everywhere. It's
embodied in folklore and superstition,
in mythology and old wives' tales. It
has been allowed simply because it is
seldom taken seriously and has never
been seen as a threat to organized
science or religion. It is a threat,
because inherent in the natural way
of knowing is a sense of rightness that
in this time of transition and indecision
could serve us very well.
Lyall Watson, biologist and writer in:
Gifts of Unknown Things. |
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Don't ask directions from someone who knows them; it will prevent you from wandering.
Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav, Chassidic Master, 1772-1810. |
| It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
John Tyndall, Irish philosopher, 1820-1893. |
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That what is yielding and tender belongs to
the realm of Life, and what is hard and strong
belongs to the realm of Death.
Lao Tse, philosopher, 6th or 4th BCE. |
| In the World-to-Come I shall not be asked why I was you not Abraham, Jacob or Moses;
I shall be asked why I was not Zusya.
Rabbi Zusya, Chassidic Master,18th Century Poland. |
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Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Anonimous. |
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The forms and the creatures have a purpose. God said,
I was Hidden Treasure, and I desired to be known.
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, Turkish Sufi mystic, 1207-1273. |
| Asking yourself these deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world.
It brings in a breath of fresh air.
It makes life more joyful.
The real trick of life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Fred Alan Wolf, physicist, in: What the Bleep Do We Know |
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Herschel, Rabbi and writer. |
| Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin, naturalist, 1809-1882, in: The Descent of Man. |
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| To be indifferent - for whatever reason- is to deny not only the validity of existence, but also it's beauty. Betray, and you are a man; torture your neighbor, you're still a man. Evil is human, weakness is human; indifference is not.
Eli Wiesel, novelist, in: The Town beyond the Wall. |
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| It is well known that most scientists are "theory-driven"rather than "data-driven" This means that scientists are uncomfortable with "facts" unless some theory can explain them.
Being theory-driven also means that scientists fail too see data that contradict their theoretical expectations. This does not mean that they fail to understand the data, but rather that they have a strong tendency literally not to perceive the offending data. Parapsychological "facts" are uncomfortable because there are no well-accepted explanations for why the facts should exist.
This does not mean that no scientific theories of psychic phenomena exist; actually, there are dozens.
It is the adequacy of the theories that is in question.
Dean Radin Ph.D. in: The Concious Universe. |
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The basic trouble is pure ignorance,
both of facts and of possibility. There is every
excuse for the former, but absolutely none for the latter.
You'll never find anything unless you know what you are
looking for.
This statement, of course, needs qualification and should
better read: If you don't know what you find, you'll not
notice it, or try everything to explain away what you
don't understand.
Ivan T. Sanderson,zoologist, writer and researcher
of anomalies, 1911-1973, in: Invisible Residents. |
I found these quotes at http://www.scienceart.nl/Frames/Mainframes/Mainfr%20Quotes.htm and copied the ones I liked best.
My favorite quote of all time is by John Lennon. “All you need is love.” 😉 I really love the one about seeing the world not as it is but as we are… How true! Beauty and love are all around us but only if we choose to open up our hearts and receive it.
Heya. 🙂 Looks like there is a quote for me up there: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin! Boldness has genius, magic and power within.” I know! I know. I’ll be blogging about this soon so stay tuned.
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that fits here nicely:
“Don’t believe everything you think.”