F. David Peat: Quotes about the world

F. David Peat was British physicist. Explore interesting quotes on world.

F. David Peat: 28 quotes0 likes

“When the Iroqouis needed to make a decision they thought of the implications of the seventh generation to come after them. Today we must think… of peoples all over the world, rich or poor, industrialized or indigenous.”

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way. …it is a dynamic and living process, an aspect of the ever-changing, ever-renewing process of nature.”

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“Each one of our thoughts changes the world in a tiny but subtle way. Multiply this by… the billions in the world, and human thought has an enormous impact.”

From Certainty to Uncertainty (2002)

“Art and music make manifest, by bringing into conscious awareness, that which has previously been felt only tentatively and internally. Art, in its widest sense, is a form of play that lies at the origin of all making, of language, and of the mind's awareness of its place within the world. Art, in all its forms, makes manifest the spiritual dimension of the cosmos, and expresses our relationship to the natural world. This may have been the cause of that natural light which first illuminated the preconscious minds of early hominids.”

Pathways of Chance (2007).