Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.