Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

Virtuality will destroy reality.