#sci

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs. ↗

— John Denver

#call #choices #conscious #heart #i

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy. ↗

— R.D. Laing

#consciousness #dreams

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#being #consciousness #enter #greater #i

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#conceive #either #essence #i #i think

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. ↗

— John Dewey

#conscience #deeds #good #good intentions #heart

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ↗

— John Dewey

#advance #audacity #every #great #imagination

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is. ↗

— Keiichi Sigsawa

#fantasy #sci-fi #beauty

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#concept #evolution #makes #science #unique

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#except #fiction #history #human #humans

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#anything #brat #committing #discipline #every