As a musician, it is a true privilege to stand on stage and watch a crowd of disparate individuals lost to the common, inclusive vitality that music offers; to observe people transcend themselves, united by that innate spiritual sameness that is buried beneath the condition of identity.

And he decided to open a temple, in the middle of one of the biggest refugee camps — 50 or 100 thousand people in these tiny, little bamboo huts.

Erwin Schrodinger was invited to deliver the Tarner Lecture at Cambridge University. His topic was not quantum mechanics. Instead, he delivered a lecture entitled the Physical Basis of Consciousness