lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in…

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

— Richard P. Feynman

“To live in the minds of others is to exist twice!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of…

— Vernor Vinge

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor…

— Charles D. Broad

“People just found – somehow – a way to adapt; their bodies continued to function, yet their minds would never exist in the same…

— Victoria Jenkins

“A thing can't exist in people's minds until it has a name. But with a name, it can exist in people's minds without existing…

— Daniel Suarez

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

— Anonymous

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively…

— George Orwell

“Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take…

— Jennifer Worth

I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around…

— Billy Boyd

And I was very successful at baby photography... Strange isn't it? Because some of my portraits of babies were - I used dramatic lighting,…

— Julius Shulman

When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that…

— Kelley Armstrong

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together.…

— Hiro Murai

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -…

— William O. Douglas

I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…

— Marcel Proust