"I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness."

-- Edward Witten

#Understanding Quotes #Bangs Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.”
“Don't forget to duck!”
“The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.”

Source : Kenneth David Kaunda, Colin Morris (1980). “Kaunda on Violence”, HarperCollins Publishers
“One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Dec 23, 2014
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
“I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply”
“modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.294, Penguin

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