Mind Blowing Quotes
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.
It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
