Mysticism Quote by John N. Gray

Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as…

— Israel Regardie

“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of a first…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field…

— Thomas Kuhn

“The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical,…

— Steven Pinker

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity.…

— Julian Jaynes

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there…

— Alison Gopnik

“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it up about…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac…

— James Gleick

“For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was it a…

— Nancy Pearcey

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and scientists who…

— David Flynn

“To return to the general analysis of the Rosicrucian outlook. Magic was a dominating factor, working as a mathematics-mechanics in the lower world, as…

— Frances A. Yates

“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living beings. They…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above…

— Lee Smolin

“Nukes and Peace It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a button we…

— Abhijit Naskar