"The scientific picture of the world is very successful, but it is incomplete. It leaves out something essential, something that is very close to us, namely, our own consciousness."

"The first thing to say is that of course I don't believe in the existence of 'my' cat, or 'your' cat, or 'the' cat. There is only one cat, which is the cat of the universe. And it's not even a cat, it…"

"The great difficulty for our contemporary way of thinking is that we must recognize the identity of the experiencing and the experienced subject."

"A theoretical science, if it is to be healthy, must be able to hold its own against the practical application of its theories."

"We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the pic…"