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“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”

The Snow Leopard (1978)
Context: The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of the pervasive energy that animates the electron. … The cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center. Such an idea holds no terror for mystics; in the mystical vision, the universe, its center, and its origins are simultaneous, all around us, all within us, and all One.

“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 72.

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The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress, 1992

“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.”
Fragment 23, as quoted in Notes on Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus (Global Academic Publishing, 1996), p. 10

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part IV