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No self is of itself alone.
The organism feeds on negative entropy.
I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
The present is the only thing that has no end.
The total number of minds in the universe is one.
Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.
Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].
If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.
We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.
The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.