|
Alan W. Watts
(6 Jan 1915 - 16 Nov 1973)
English-American philosopher and writer who was an ordained Anglican priest but widely studied comparative religion. Through 28 books (including The Way of Zen), and hundreds of public lectures, he popularized Eastern religious philosophy, especially the Zen form of Buddhism.
|
Science Quotes by Alan W. Watts (2 quotes)
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It’s a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.
— Alan W. Watts
From lecture, 'Images of God,' available as a podcast, and part of The Tao of Philosophy six-CD collection of lectures by Watts.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
— Alan W. Watts
…...
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
