February 2012
22 posts
“Human beings need relationships.
But the deepest and best relationships are...”
– Nicholas Humphrey, Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
“As I gazed into my own mind, I saw not a thing but a process.
I saw no...”
– Bodhipaksa, Living as a River
“Whether we are aware of it or not, our deepest need is to be in relationship...”
– Shimon Malin, The Eye That Sees Itself
“We’re living through a profound shift in worldview, from the belief that life is...”
– Robert Lanza, Blog March 3, 2010
“Emerson’s core convictions were taking shape.
In his journals, he sketched out...”
– James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
“He (Emerson) was similarly electrified by Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection, a...”
– James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
“Enlightenment is just a word pointing to the seeing of that thought-based,...”
– Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life
“The fetters have broken, and we have not just entered the stream, not just...”
– Bodhipaksa, Living as a River
“Every time we make a choice, we play a part in forming a new version of the...”
– Bodhipaksa, Living as a River
“Back and forth, we must switch between intellect and intuition, between...”
– Christian de Quincey, Radical Nature: The Soul of Matter
“How needful it is for me to enter into the darkness, and to admit the...”
– Nichoas of Cusa (Fifteenth Century)
“It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“For years I believed that the underlying ‘flaw’ in the libertarian, free-market...”
– Eric Sanders on February 7, 2012 at Big Think
http://bigthink.com/ideas/42335?utm_source=Big+Think+Weekly+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=7d97c5b13f-Sat_2_11_12_Church_State2_10_2012&utm_medium=email
“…we have discovered that we live in a universe in which empty space—what...”
– Lawrence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing
“We shall need a new physics.
A new cosmology.
New understandings of past and...”
– Charles Krauthammer column on the faster-than-light experiments, October 8, 2011
“Why is there something rather than nothing?” must be understood in the context...”
– Lawrence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing
“The universe is far stranger and far richer—more wondrously strange—than our...”
– Lawrence Krauss, A Universe From Nothing
“…the braiding of human time and narratives of cosmic time appear almost...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every...”
– Lawrence Krauss, A Universe from Nothing
“…one could say that through the human being, the universe is making a mirror to...”
– Physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley
“The universe can be best pictured, though still very imperfectly and...”
– James Jeans, quoted in Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever
“Where did the substance of the universe come from? . .
If 0 equals ( + 1) +...”
– Isaac Asimov, quoted in Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever
January 2012
27 posts
“Changes in the experience and conception of time always originate in our...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Creation myths imagine time as a straight line with a beginning point. ...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“This is a recurring theme of human history: major advances in civilization are...”
– Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
“That is the beautiful thing about ideas: sometimes they generate clues that,...”
– Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
“How much of the Enlightenment do we owe to coffee?
Most of the epic...”
– Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
“Epic breakthroughs happen when the layers align: when energy flows and...”
– Steven Johnson, The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
“The dichotomies of Parmenides and Heraclitus, the prescience of the atomists,...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Heraclitus drew the opposite conclusion [to Parmenides’:Change and time...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Parmenides looked at the world of change and saw it as nothing more than an...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Building on theories of the Pythagoreans, Plato argued that behind the...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“The elegant symmetries of Platonic solids led these Greek...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“The universe consists primarily of dark matter. We can’t see it, but it...”
– Joel Gold, “The Dark Matter of the Mind” response to the 2012 Edge Question: What Is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?
at: http://edge.org/annual-question
“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing...”
– Georg Cantor (via philphys)
“It is crucial to recognize that each grand change in human history has shifted...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Suppose the feeling of transcendent significance that comes from reflecting on...”
– Nicholas Humphrey, Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough...”
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“How should we define you?
Where do you begin and where do you end? The only...”
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies...”
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“But there are limits to introspection.
Just consider the fact that your...”
– David Eagleman, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“No strangers to deeply felt mysticism, the Pythagoreans were a secret...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“The new breed of Greek thinkers vaulted past this ego-centered worldview and...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Everything is enfolding together. The final state of zero which the universe has...”
– Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever
“Time emerged as a separate property of the world during the urban revolution,...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“This process of material engagement completed the Big Bang of consciousness and...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“Nonexistence cannot be. It cannot exist. It cannot even be meant.
And that...”
– Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever
“In the Big Bang of consciousness they had begun to watch the cycles of the world...”
– Adam Frank, About Time
“The universe is moving directly toward the opposite extreme from which time...”
– Gevin Giorbran, Everything Forever: Learning to See Timelessness
December 2011
27 posts
“Thus the time of origins existed not in the past, as we imagine it now in...”
– Adam Frank, About Time