A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions.
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
Everyone shares the same fate.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
No one ever expects poetry to sell.
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think.
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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