Observer Quotes

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Julian said quietly, “It was the love of money, not money itself, that was named the root of evil.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Nobel laureate Max Planck, regarding consciousness as fundamental to the universe: “I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“solipsism.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“He’d imagined a world where, as people began to see the truth of a consciousness-centered universe, they would come to understand that other people, too, were intimately connected to them. They would then become kinder to each other. All men would truly become brothers because they were all sharers in the consciousness that shaped the world.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Where were you, Lorraine?” She said, “Everywhere. Every time.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“But Kierkegaard wrote something that has stayed with me for a long time. He said, ‘There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“She lay—at six years old? Seven?—on a blanket in the back garden, watching clouds drift across the sky. Then, all at once, the clouds were no longer there, and neither was Caro. She was nowhere and everywhere, woven into what she later thought of as “the fabric of the universe.” She was the clouds, the grass, the breeze, the ant crawling across her arm. Everything was her, and she was everything.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Albert Einstein wrote, ‘Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“consciousness does not simply observe the universe. We create it, and we do so not just singly but collectively. And as scientists explore this new line of research, it’s becoming increasingly clear how intimately we are all connected with the structure of the universe on every level. Including connections with each other.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“It seemed to Caro that Trevor had been right when she’d asked him about his blog post on Christianity: religion reflected humanity’s need to codify natural impulses of curiosity about nature and a desire for order, plus perhaps gratitude for life itself. Start with feelings and then build up around it beliefs and strictures that got thicker and thicker, like layers of nacre around a grain of sand. You ended up with rigid laws—cover your hair, no meat on Fridays, sit this way during meditation even if it hurts your spine, build points on roofs to keep out evil spirits. Or else. The original impulse to worship life was smothered in rules and fear.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Weigert raised his voice and recited Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita: “‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer

“Everything the brain did was only a possibility until it actually did it, and the possibilities were unlimited, although some were much more probable than others.”
― Robert Lanza, Observer