“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move...” — Frank Herbert Quote

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”

“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”

“Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”

“We have your language now," she said.”

“Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”

“Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.”

“At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer to our national problems -- the answer for all the problems of the world -- comes down to a single word. That word is 'education.”

“Хотя эта книга затронет многие поведенческие науки — антропологию, психиатрию, социологию, политические науки, эволюционная психология будет в её центре. Это молодая и пока ещё неокрепшая дисциплина, частично выполнившая обещание создать новую науку о мышлении, позволяет нам теперь задать вопрос, который было бы бесполезно задавать и в 1859 году, после выхода в свет «Происхождения», и в 1959-м — чем теория естественного отбора может быть полезна обычным людям?”

“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels”

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”