Robert Lanza Quotes

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

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

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.