123 Quotes by Edgar Mitchell

I have trust that we humans can resolve the problems that we have created. There is a Sanskrit saying that I subscribe to and I like very much, that “God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in the animals, and thinks in Man.”

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren’t even born when we went to the moon, and so they don’t have the perspective.

The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don’t have a Big Bang, but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!

Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I’m agnostic. Okay, I don’t know the answer, let’s find the answer.

We’re not on a sustainable path in civilization. We’re on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There’s a saying that Unity uses that I have always liked: “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” We all have to be a part of this. We have to be the initiator. We can’t wait.

I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can’t throw caveats in. I don’t make blanket statements.

I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it’s a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

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