“I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.”
“No libraries, no progress.”
“If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.”
“The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.”
“Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.”
“Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.”
“This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.”
“Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.”
Chan Khong Peace activist
Chogyam Trungpa Teacher
Dalai Lama
Eckhart Tolle Author
Gautama Buddha Founding Figure
Jack Kornfield Author
Jon Kabat-Zinn Professor
Pema Chodron Nun
Shunryu Suzuki
