Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

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.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.