1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Source: 1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 2. Spring 1965, p. 259
“Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
IV. That the species of myth are five, with examples of each.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Interview with Suzie Daggett at Insight: Healthy Living (July 2006).
Context: Mystics, contrary to religionists, are always saying that reality is not two things — God and the world — but one thing, consciousness. It is a monistic view of reality based on consciousness that mystics claim to directly intuit. The problem with science has always been that most scientists believe that science must be done within a different monistic framework, one based on the primacy of matter. And then, quantum physics showed us that we must change that myopic prejudice of scientists, otherwise we cannot comprehend quantum physics. So now we have science within consciousness, a new paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness that is gradually replacing the old materialist science. Why? Not only because you can't understand quantum physics without this new metaphysics but also because the new paradigm resolves many other paradoxes of the old paradigm and explains much anomalous data.
Source: The Lightness of Being – Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces (2008), Ch. 1, p. 9.
“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
Burns (1828).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
1960s, Playboy Interview (1969)
Nobel Address (1991)
Context: The new integrity of the world, in our view, can be built only on the principles of the freedom of choice and balance of interests. Every State, and now also a number of existing or emerging regional interstate groups, have their own interests. They are all equal and deserve respect.
We consider it dangerously outdated when suspicions are aroused by, for instance, improved Soviet-Chinese or Soviet-German, German-French, Soviet- US or US-Indian relations, etc. In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss.
