Quotes About Awareness

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines