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

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.

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.

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

Truth never dies.

When people ask me about the definition of a copywriter, I say, "If I become a good copywriter, I will have the ability to bring nonliving people to life.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.