Quotes About Mind

I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.

Le persone silenziose sono quelle che hanno le menti più rumorose.

If we find the answer to that (why the universe exists), it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason. For then we would know the mind of God.

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law.

The universe is a machine governed by principles or laws – laws that can be understood by the human mind.

The human mind is an incredible thing. It can conceive of the magnificence of the heavens and the intricacies of the basic components of matter. Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder.

I have led an extraordinary life on this planet, while at the same time travelling across the universe by using my mind and the laws of physics. I have been to the furthest reaches of our galaxy, travelled into a black hole and gone back to the beginning of time.

it is surely better to strive for a complete understanding than to despair of the human mind.

why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God.

it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.

a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, real or imaginary time? It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description.

There is no way to remove the observer—us—from our perception of the world

Teori hanya ada dalam akal budi kita dan tak punya realitas lain.

Se descobríssemos a resposta para isso [a razão pela qual o Universo existe], seria o triunfo derradeiro da razão humana — pois aí conheceríamos a mente de Deus.

Hamlet said, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space." I think what he meant was that although we humans are very limited physically, particularly in my own case, our minds are free to explore the whole universe, and to boldly go where even Star Trek fears to tread.

Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder. Often that spark comes from a teacher.

Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn't. I'm an atheist.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply trying to understand the mind of God.

Genius has as many components as the mind itself.

Shall we appreciate any less the beauty of nature because its harmony is unplanned? And shall the potential of mind cease to inspire our awe and fear because several billion neurons reside in our skulls?

Matter is the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God as well, are just words that express the wondrous results of neuronal complexity.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

I tend to scare myself.