— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
The Rock that Is Higher (1993)
As quoted in SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence (2000) by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, p. 15
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
The Rock that Is Higher (1993)
— Albert Messiah French physicist 1921 - 2013
Il y avait un nombre important de questions que je m'étais posées et, comme vous le savez, lorsqu'on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l'on se contente de lire les réponses convenues.
explaining how he came to write his textbook on quantum mechanics, in Descente au coeur de la matière, an interview edited by [Stéphane Deligeorges, Le monde quantique, Editions du Seuil, Sciences et Avenir, 1984, 2020089084, 111]
„I just think the closer we (as a species) think we get to God, the closer we get to death.“
— Patrice O'Neal American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor 1969 - 2011
September 23, 2011
The Opie and Anthony Radio Show
— Charles de Lint author 1951
"Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396
Kontext: It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer. It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
„The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.“
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Quelle: A Circle of Quiet
„Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't…“
— Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
„God is the answer when we don't know the answer.“
— Philippe Starck French architect and industrial designer 1949
Design and destiny, 2007
— Gottfried de Purucker Author, Theosophist 1874 - 1942
Quelle: Man in Evolution (1941), Chapter 1
— Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Greek architect 1914 - 1975
Quelle: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 4, Definition of Entopia, p. 38
— Daniel Radcliffe English actor 1989
http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html
— Donald Miller American writer 1971
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
— Sharron Angle Former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007 1949
interview with Carl Cameron on Fox News Channel, 2010-08-02
Kontext: Sharron Angle: We needed to have the press be our friend.
Carl Cameron: Wait a minute. Hold on a second. To be your friend…?
Sharron Angle: Well, truly—
Carl Cameron: That sounds naive.
Sharron Angle: Well, no. We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.
— Matt Dillahunty American activist 1969
Refining Reason Debate: "Is It Reasonable to Believe that God Exists?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8LREmbDi0, Memphis, TN,
— J. B. S. Haldane, buch The Causes of Evolution
Quelle: The Causes of Evolution (1932), Ch. V What is Fitness?, pp. 158-159.
Kontext: I have given my reasons for thinking that we can probably explain evolution in terms of the capacity for variation of individual organisms, and the selection exercised on them by their environment....
The most obvious alternative to this view is to hold that evolution has throughout been guided by divine power. There are two objections to this hypothesis. Most lines of descent end in extinction, and commonly the end is reached by a number of different lines evolving in parallel. This does not suggest the work of an intelligent designer, still less of an all mighty one. But the moral objection is perhaps more serious. A very large number of originally free-living Crustacea, worms, and so on, have evolved into parasites. In doing so they have lost, to a greater or less extent, their legs, eyes, and brains, and have become in many cases the course of considerable and prolonged pain to other animals and to man. If we are going to take an ethical point of view at all (and we must do so when discussing theological questions), we are, I think, bound to place this loss of faculties coupled with increased infliction of suffering in the same class as moral breakdown in a human being, which can often be traced to genetical causes. To put the matter in a more concrete way, Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.
— Anatol Rapoport Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911 - 2007
Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1970, and appeared in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, October 1969, p. 16
1970s and later
„We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.“
— Rebecca Solnit, buch Men Explain Things To Me
Quelle: Men Explain Things to Me
spirituality and consciousness
— C. V. Boys British physicist 1855 - 1944
[Charles Vernon Boys, Soap-bubbles and the forces which mould them: Being a course of three lectures delivered in the theatre of the London institution on the afternoons of Dec. 30, 1889, Jan. 1 and 3, 1890, before a juvenile audience, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1896, 11]