I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.