Shocking Sayings
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The total number of minds in the universe is one.
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole.
I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am.
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies.
I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.
The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture.
Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind.
The present is the only thing that has no end.
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchan…
Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well.
The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius], and raining sulfuric acid.
Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10 thousand years.
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species…
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the…
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light…