I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of read more

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the read more

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time read more

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are
on the way to a pertinent answer.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.