"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance"
- Democritus
"Science is an imaginative
adventure of the mind seeking
truth in a world of mystery"
-Cyril Hinshelwood
"One sunny day two waves were happily frolicking about, suddenly one of the waves grew sad. Noticing the sudden change in his companion, the first wave asked," Why so sad?". The second wave quickly replied,"see those rocks up ahead? soon we will crash upon them and be swallowed up by the ocean". "Silly wave", the first answered," we are the ocean".
-anonymous
"It was not possible to formulate the laws (of quantum physics) in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness"
-Eugene Wigner
"Dancing within the Song"
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but rather of balance and order, rythm and harmony."
-Thomas Merton
"If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
-Jules Poincare
"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, the oneness, with the universe..."
-Black Elk
"What society thinks of as reality today is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. It is the melodrama of a humdrum existence, filled with trite obsessions and trivial pursuits, wherein our only fate is to be born, grow old, and die."
-Deepak Chopra
"Nothing endures but change"
-Heraclitus