The best model of a cat is another cat. . . , specially the same cat.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.
Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.
Of course I get hurt.
Electing Sudan to the U. N. body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter.
Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.