Complicated Quote by Alan Watts

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.

— Ira Flatow

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number…

— Marie Curie

To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As…

— Paul Virilio

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and…

— Raymond Moody

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to…

— Wilder Penfield

“Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun, the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

— James Elkins

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

— Thomas Nagel