Robert Lanza Quotes

#1. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.

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#2. Is it not obvious that science only pretends to explain the cosmos on its fundamental level?

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#3. We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.

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#4. For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.

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#5. We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

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#6. When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

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#7. We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

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#8. Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

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#9. In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

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#10. Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

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#11. We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

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#12. Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

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#13. once one fully understands that there is no independent external universe outside of biological existence, the rest more or less falls into place.

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#14. Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

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#15. When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.

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#16. So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights.

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#17. Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.

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#18. The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

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#19. Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

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#20. Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

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#21. How does consciousness ever begin? How could that possibly occur? And is that question any less enigmatic than trying to figure how it might arise at a later date? Is consciousness synonymous with everything?

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#22. Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

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#23. we must rid ourselves of the notion that space and time are actual qualities in things in themselves . . . all bodies, together with the space in which they are, must be considered nothing but mere representations in us, and exist nowhere but in our thoughts." Biocentrism,

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#24. number of ways things can happen is stupendous. The mind's potential lies beyond its own comprehension.

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#25. I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

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#26. We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

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#27. Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

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#28. Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

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#29. That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

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#30. Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

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#31. Religion and science look at reality differently.

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#32. Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

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#33. We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

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#34. Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

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#35. So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

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#36. Obviously, there's no possible rebuttal to a suggestion that an unknown variable is producing some result because the phrase itself is as unhelpful as a politician's election promise.

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#37. The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

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#38. Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

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#39. I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will go "down the drain" into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. - Nobel physicist Richard Feynman

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#40. First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be separated.

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#41. Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

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#42. We can believe and aver that there's a universe out there even if all living creatures were nonexistent, but this idea is merely a thought and a thought requires a thinking organism. Without any organism, what if anything is really there?

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#43. So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

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#44. When we observe the words printed in a book, its paper, seemingly a foot away, is not being perceived--the image, the paper, is the perception.

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#45. As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.

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#46. Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

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#47. Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

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