Quotes About Parapsychology

#1. Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.

Tim Gilmore

#2. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#3. It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. See, Berkeley has always drawn the nuts and flakes of the academic world. That's what happens when you have a university that offers degrees in both computer science and parapsychology.

Mira Grant

#5. The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

Mortimer J. Adler

#6. I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

Augustus De Morgan

#7. What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in the field of parapsychology indirectly points to this possibility, yet most people in mainstream science can't bring themselves to consider the implications.

Mark Ireland

#9. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. I don't believe in a lot of phenomena that fall under the term 'parapsychology.' Especially that one branch, psychology. You're going to tell me there's something inside my head, controlling me?

Bauvard

#11. Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

Daniel Tammet

#12. My dad finds Twitter just infinitely unrelatable. He's like, 'Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it's private?!' And I'm like, 'Why would you even have a snack if you didn't tell anybody? Why bother eating?'

Lena Dunham

#13. The science is clear: if psi exists, the most reliable way to see it is through the lens of statistics. As a result, believers should stop and think before ever consulting a psychic.

Steve Volk

#14. You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married.

Jess Walter

#15. With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Aberjhani

#16. My experience weighs on me far more than my years show.

Christopher Moore

#17. Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.

Lucio Russo

#18. Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?

Vincent De Paul

#19. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.

William, Saroyan

#20. And since the gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it, the community's life must be so ordered that it "makes sense" to those who are so invited.

Lesslie Newbigin

#21. Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Chandrakanth Natekar

#22. Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

Isaac Bonewits

#23. Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

Russell Targ

#24. Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

Susan Blackmore

#25. Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

Bill Gates

#26. The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson