Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. If we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.