"I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."

"The idea that consciousness is a phenomenon of the brain is an illusion. Consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, and the brain is merely an antenna that tunes into it."

"The greatest change will be in the thinking habits of the human race. It will learn to look at things in a new way. Quantum theory will force it to do so."

"The idea that there is a soul, which is a kind of independent entity in the body, is not something that I think a lot of people would agree with today. But the idea that consciousness is something tha…"