“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
On reincarnation, as quoted in "AN INTERVIEW WITH HELEN REDDY" by Gary Barg, TheSilverPages.com, 22 April 2014 http://thesilverpages.com/articles/an-interview-with-helen-reddy
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
William Crookes (1832–1919) British chemist and physicist
Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897)
Context: I am impelled to one further reflection, dealing with the conservation of energy. We say, with truth, that energy is transformed but not destroyed, and that whenever we can trace the transformation we find it quantitatively exact. So far as our very rough exactness goes, this is true for inorganic matter and for mechanical forces. But it is only inferentially true for organized matter and for vital forces. We can not express life in terms of heat or of motion. And thus it happens that just when the exact transformation of energy will be most interesting to watch, we can not really tell whether any fresh energy has been introduced into the system or not. Let us consider this a little more closely.
Spider Robinson book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1977) "Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy"
Dr. Moog (1934–2005) electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States
From the film Moog (2004)
Context: The more you get into material and matter, all you realize is in matter, there is energy. There is a blur between energy and consciousness. All material is conscious to some extent or another. All material can respond to some extent or another to vibrations of energy that is different to energy you learn about in physics. There are all sorts of reliable information now on people and animal being able to be able to effect the operations of machines—even of computers—and I think that has great implications for what goes on between a musician and his instrument. There is a level of reality where there is no time, and there is no space, there is just energy. And we have contact with that through the intermediate layers, so, if the right channels—if the right connections are established, I don’t see why a piece of matter, a piece of broken glass or and old record can’t make contact through this very high level of reality that has access to everything past and future. I suppose my instruments do retain some sort of memory of me. I know that when I’m working on them I feel (not explicitly, I don’t hear voices in my head or anything) that I’m making a connection with it. The circuit diagram, that is then converted into a circuit board, which then becomes a part of an instrument is something that is a record that I made. So I guess in that sense it is something that is certainly a memory.
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 1 : Power-Over and Power-From-WIthin, p. 13
“Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986, p.18
Ken Wilber book Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
Context: Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.
John Lennox (1943) British mathematician and philosopher of science
[Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA, 10 May 2011, YouTube, The Veritas Forum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIknACeeS0g] (quote at 8:35 of 10:39)
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist
Source: Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943), p. 32