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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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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of…
— Camille Paglia
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The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of…
— Dean Radin
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I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific…
— Albert Einstein
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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,…
— Stanislav Grof
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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring…
— Stanislav Grof
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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…
— Fritjof Capra
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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the…
— Albert Einstein
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Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened…
— Camille
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Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western…
— Cynthia Breazeal
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Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
— Gary Zukav
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