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> [“If the human mind can understand the universe, it means the human mind is fundamentally of the same order as the divine mind. If the human mind is of the same order as the divine mind, then everything that appeared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-zubrin/if-the-human-mind-can-understand-the-universe-it-means-the-human-mind/)

[Robert Zubrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-zubrin/)

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> [The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-dennett/the-task-of-the-mind-is-to-produce-future-as-the-poet-paul-valery/)

[Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-dennett/)

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