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F. David Peat Quotes

1938–2017 England

England
Non-fiction authors
Physicists

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Science proceeds by abstracting what is essential from the accidental details of matter and process.

Is there an objective aspect that remains constant through time? Or are we more like open systems or processes within the constant flow of life?

The danger arises when a culture takes its own story as the absolute truth, and seeks to impose this truth on others as the yardstick of all knowledge and belief.

We must ask if.. structures and organizations continue to serve the purposes for which they were first created. Are they true to the spirit that once inspired them?

The persona can eventually become ourselves, or an aspect of ourselves, to the point where we don't know which is the mask and which is the I.

The mescal bead... is no mere symbol. For those who wear it, it really does enfold the universe and bring them into contact with all of creation.

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

Each one of our thoughts changes the world in a tiny but subtle way. Multiply this by... the billions in the world, and human thought has an enormous impact.

Einstein's famous theory of relativity states that while phenomena appear different to someone close to a black hole, traveling close to the speed of light, or in a falling elevator here on earth, scientists in profoundly different environments will nevertheless always discover the same underlying laws of nature.

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