Quotes by Robert W. Wilson

“. "He's perfect," wrote.... "Unlike , who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.””

“Operationalism, created by Nobel physicist Percy W. Bridgman, attempts to deal with the "common sense" objections to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and owes a great deal to pragmatism and instrumentalism. Bridgman explicitly pointed out that "common sense" derives unknowingly from some tenets of ancient philosophy and speculation”

“What is man? A bridge between the ape and the Superman”

“These "bugs” or “orgones” seem to be relatives of the geometric light displays witnessed by people on peyote or its derivative, mescaline. They also appear in sensory withdrawal experiments, in which the subject is submerged in a tank of water and isolated from all outside stimuli; indeed, one stage of sensory withdrawal is called ‘mescaline” by the researchers because of this similarity. Alan W. Watts has suggested that what is happening in these cases is that the electrical patterns in the brain itself are being projected outward. Perhaps; but see, also, the lady in the last chapter, who found herself amid “the stars” while having an orgasm under the influence of marijuana. The vision of Nuit, the Egyptian goddess of the night sky and the stars, is the goal of Aleister Crowley’s sex magic, and he recorded in his most emotionally satisfying vision that the universe was “Nothing, with twinkles – but what twinkles!” Through such odd reports we might eventually trace an understanding of how bioelectricity converts into thought and mind.””