Life comes from Life –Omne vivum ex vivo
“From the reader’s perspective, a book is composed of alphabetical letters; but the book itself did not originate from these letters. Ultimately it is from the ideas of the author that the letters of the book come to be. In the same way, the molecules of a biological organism are the result, not the origin of life. This is the difference between the order in which we come to know things (ordo cognoscendi) and the order in which something comes to be (ordo essendi).”
B. Madhava Puri, Ph.D., Serving Director of the Princeton BVISCS
“To us…the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality—the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical—as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously… It would be most satisfactory of all if physics and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.”
Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, C. G. Jung and W. Pauli [each writing separately], Bollingen, 1955, pps 208-210
“The stuff of the world is mind-stuff… The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time… Recognizing that the physical world is entirely abstract and without ‘actuality’ apart from its linkage to consciousness, we restore consciousness to the fundamental position.”
ARTHUR EDDINGTON (1928), NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, PP. 276-277
“Mind has erected the objective outside world of the natural philosopher out of its own stuff. Mind could not cope with this gigantic task otherwise than by the simplifying device of excluding itself…withdrawing from its conceptual.”
Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter, Cambridge, 1958