Cities Quote by Bill Mollison

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the…

— Alan Watts

The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces…

— Gary Zukav

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the…

— Bjarke Ingels

A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical…

— David Papineau

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are…

— Paul McCartney

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

— Bill Gates

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…

— Max Horkheimer

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

— Eric Kandel

Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and…

— Satish Kumar

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in…

— Eugene S. Ferguson

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr