Eugene Wigner Quotes
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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And the whole is greater than the part.
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We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
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A disciple who grows spiritually will have a growing desire to be a witness and reach out to those who are lost.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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Man is man, and master of his fate.
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
