All great things are achieved in a light heart
— Ramtha

In formal logic, a formal signal is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.
— Alfred North Whitehead

NASA astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell came to this conclusion on his return trip from space:
“In one moment I realized that this universe is intelligent. It is proceeding in a direction, and we have something to do with that direction. And that creative spirit, the creative intent that has been the history of this planet, comes from within us, and it is out there — it is all the same . . . . Consciousness itself is what is fundamental, and energy-matter is the product of consciousness . . . . If we change our heads about who we are — and can see ourselves as creative, eternal beings creating physical experience, joined at that level of existence we call consciousness — then we start to see and create this world that we live in quite differently.”
[From the BLEEP Book]

I am looking for a lot of men who have infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
— Henry Ford

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.
— Terence McKenna

Philosophy is written in this grand book — the universe — which stands continuously open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures. Without these one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.
— Galileo Galilei