I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The reason for our loving God is God.

I can't drive, so I don't need a flash car, and I like living at home, so I don't need a mansion. I'm sensible with money. It's not why I act.

I want answers now or I want them eventually!

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.