Active Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our…

— Paul Bloom

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least…

— Emily Greene Balch

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are…

— John Dewey

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can…

— John Herschel

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

— Maria Konnikova

One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

— Laozi

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings…

— Albert Einstein

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured…

— Maria Montessori