Richard Evans Schultes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.
-- Richard Evans Schultes

#Achievement #Feelings #Use
Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.
-- Richard Evans Schultes

#Adventure #Planning #Expeditions
One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.
-- Richard Evans Schultes

#People #Chemistry #Wonder
The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
-- Richard Evans Schultes

#Psychedelic #Plant #Disappear

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!â€ said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Richard Evans Schultes famous quotes

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