At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

Learn to say “please” and “thank you” in multiple languages.

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.

What are you doing here, Simi? (Astrid) Feeling peckish. Is there any food? Something not too heavy. Maybe a cow or two? (Simi)