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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the…
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A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…
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The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…
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The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in…
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
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The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.…
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Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized…
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If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…
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Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and…
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical…
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A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our…
— George Washington
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They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because…
— Vladimir Putin
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Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be…
— Aldous Huxley
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You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization.…
— Unknown Author
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This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession…
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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between…
— Bill Frist
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…
— Carroll Quigley
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Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up…
— Louis L'Amour
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need…
— Albert Schweitzer
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There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the…
— Josh McDowell
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