It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

I realized that marriage is not only about exchanging vows, but it's about two people who equally make a continuous effort to honour their vows.

We need your patienceYour knowledgewe need your caring heart

Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

You have to fight just to survive.

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.