Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
The great unexplored frontier is complexity. . . I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.
Today Christians. . . stand at the head of Germany. . . We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's. . . scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!