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• I think the problem isn't the amount of knowledge we have to assimilate in our world, but the rate at which we can assimiliate it.
  Science, engineering, and technology do not yield the 'whys' of truth...
• We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
  We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology....
• In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
  -- H.A. Krame...
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view.
  We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation....
• Two lights for guidance. The first, our little glowing atom of community, with all that it signifies.
  The second, the cold light of the stars, symbol of the hypercosmical reality, with its crystal ecstasy....
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• So from the depths of its enchantment, Terra was able to calculate a course of action.
  Here at last was an opportunity to consort with Dirbanu on a friendly basis -- great Durbanu which, since it had force fields which Earth could not duplicate, must of necessity have many other things Earth could use...
• I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these Calculating Engines.
  I have also declined several offers of great personal advantage to myself....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...