James P. Hogan
9 quotes
"On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?"
"Sometimes Hugh Brenner thought he'd been born on the wrong planet. It seemed as obvious as anything could be that people achieved more when they learned to get along than they did when they fought over things. If they put as much time and energy into fixing problems instead of blaming each other for being the problem, there wouldn't be any problems left. So far they'd had two full-dress rehearsals for wiping out what passed as civilization. This time it looked as if things might be leading up to the real performance."
"Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them."
"I am confident that the things that have been described for centuries as mystical insight are results of abnormal Multiverse sensitivity — either acquired accidentally or developed through training. There is that much in common. The difference is in the direction that consciousness looks in — the part of the Multiverse from which information enters awareness. In the traditional meditative state, the mind expands into the present. Its experience is of knowing — direct perception of a timeless reality that transcends the limited world of the senses. The QUADAR, by contrast, tunes to the future. It delivers an experience of feelings and premonitions. One reveals what is; the other, what could be. Actuality versus potential."
"We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice. <!--Nothing from Washington; no special interests wanting privileges; no threats, no scares; nobody telling us what we should be getting angry about. … It was all upbeat — as if everyone knew where they wanted to go and how to get there, and were doing it together. There was a lot on arts and sciences... and things about history and philosophy that you wouldn't see in our papers. Ideas is what I think I'm trying to say: They were written for people who liked to hear about ideas. -->"
"It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them."
"Scientists don't frighten me. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore MISdirectable lines. It's children and conjurers who frighten me. Against scientists, I feel quite confident."
"Confidence is a feeling you get when you don't REALLY understand the situation."
"A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion."