"Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!"
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"'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!"
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"From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature."
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"The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes."
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"Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code."
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"Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics."
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"The mind is an evolved computer program."
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"In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate."
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"The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer."
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole."
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"The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'."
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"Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have."
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"I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true."
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"If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off."
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"For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence."
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"Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me."
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"In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters."
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"But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies."
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"A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt."
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"Nature is stronger than education."
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