Top 50 Robert Lanza Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.”

— Robert Lanza

2. “Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.”

— Robert Lanza

3. “Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.”

— Robert Lanza

4. “Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.”

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5. “Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.”

— Robert Lanza

6. “Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.”

— Robert Lanza

7. “In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.”

— Robert Lanza

8. “Fifth Principle of Biocentrism: The very structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The universe is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.”

— Robert Lanza

9. “That’s absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn’t an accident of the laws of physics. There’s a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.”

— Robert Lanza

10. “Today’s preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science – to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift’s kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.”

— Robert Lanza

11. “The biocentric view of the timeless, spaceless cosmos of consciousness allows for no true death in any real sense. When a body dies, it does so not in the random billiard-ball matrix but in the all-is-still-inescapably-life matrix.”

— Robert Lanza

12. “Name the colors, blind the eye” is an old Zen saying, illustrating that the intellect’s habitual ways of branding and labeling creates a terrible experiential loss by displacing the vibrant, living reality with a steady stream of labels.”

— Robert Lanza

13. “Physics tells us observations can’t be predicted absolutely. Rather, there’s a range of possible observations each with a different probability.”

— Robert Lanza

14. “First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be separated.”

— Robert Lanza

15. “Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can’t even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we’ll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.”

— Robert Lanza

16. “Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.”

— Robert Lanza

17. “Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.”

— Robert Lanza

18. “Reality is observer-determined – it’s a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.”

— Robert Lanza

19. “Two and a half thousand years later, Zeno’s arrow paradox finally makes sense. The Eleatic School of philosophy, which Zeno brilliantly defended, was right. So was Werner Heisenberg when he said, “A path comes into existence only when you observe it.” There is neither time nor motion without life. Reality is not “there” with definite properties waiting to be discovered but actually comes into being depending upon the actions of the observer.”

— Robert Lanza

20. “Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.”

— Robert Lanza

21. “Nothing is perceived except the perceptions themselves, and nothing exists outside of consciousness. Only one visual reality is extant, and there it is. Right there. The “outside world” is, therefore, located within the brain or mind.”

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22. “Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.”

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23. “We can believe and aver that there’s a universe out there even if all living creatures were nonexistent, but this idea is merely a thought and a thought requires a thinking organism. Without any organism, what if anything is really there?”

— Robert Lanza

24. “The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.”

— Robert Lanza

25. “We don’t have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?”

— Robert Lanza

26. “The “universe” is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.”

— Robert Lanza

27. “So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.”

— Robert Lanza

28. “We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.”

— Robert Lanza

29. “Religion and science look at reality differently.”

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30. “For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.”

— Robert Lanza

31. “How does consciousness ever begin? How could that possibly occur? And is that question any less enigmatic than trying to figure how it might arise at a later date? Is consciousness synonymous with everything?”

— Robert Lanza

32. “So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we’ll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We’ve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.”

— Robert Lanza

33. “I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like that?” because you will go “down the drain” into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. – Nobel physicist Richard Feynman.”

— Robert Lanza

34. “But perhaps we can grant that something happens when the thinking mind takes a vacation. Absence of verbal thought or day-dreaming clearly doesn’t mean torpor and vacuity. Rather, it’s as if the seat of consciousness escapes from its jumpy, nervous, verbal isolation cell and takes residence in some other section of the theater, where the lights shine more brightly and where things feel more direct, more real. On what street is this theater found? Where are the sensations of life?”

— Robert Lanza

35. “We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.”

— Robert Lanza

36. “So, given that the vast majority of humans who ever lived are not alive today, it would be an oversight to ignore their insights.”

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37. “The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the human body, but there is some part of it which remains eternal.”

— Robert Lanza

38. “The end result is that we have shown that special relativity does not require the concept of rigid, objective space to function; if we start with the presumption of a unified field, then it is enough to propose that disturbances in the field provide a self-consistent relationship between its various parts.”

— Robert Lanza

39. “I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.”

— Robert Lanza

40. “Bell’s experiment implies that one can instantaneously change the cross-correlation of two sets of widely separated events, a result that is intelligible only if we assume that the mind transcends the transient existence of things in space and time.”

— Robert Lanza

41. “Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.”

— Robert Lanza

42. “When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness – or into waves of probability.”

— Robert Lanza

43. “There are really only two choices. Either the first particle communicates its situation far faster than the speed of light, indeed, with infinite speed, and using a methodology that totally escapes even our most desperate guesses, or else there really is no separation between the pair at all, appearances to the contrary. They are in a real sense in contact, despite a universe of seemingly empty space standing between them.”

— Robert Lanza

44. “Time’s existence cannot be found between the tick and the tock of a clock. It is the language of life and, as such, is most powerfully felt in the context of human experience.”

— Robert Lanza

45. “Do all living creatures experience some analogue of our own sense of rapture at the deep purples in a twilight sky?”

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46. “Is it not obvious that science only pretends to explain the cosmos on its fundamental level?”

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47. “By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all created things – all possibilities and potentialities – past and present, great and small.”

— Robert Lanza

48. “Absolutely everything in the symbolic realm, for example, has come into existence at one point in time, and will eventually die – even mountains. Yet consciousness, like aspects of quantum theory involving entangled particles, may exist outside of time altogether. Finally, some revert to the “control” aspect.”

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49. “Nobel laureate Max Planck, regarding consciousness as fundamental to the universe: “I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”

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50. “Just as we cannot properly perceive what’s going on in the universe without incorporating the essence of perception itself, that is, consciousness, so too we cannot adequately discuss and understand the cosmos unless we have some notion of the nature and limitations of the tools used for discussion and understanding, namely language and the rational mind.”

— Robert Lanza