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.

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.

[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

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.

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.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

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...