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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as…
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural…
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In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite…
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The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must…
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A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its…
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess,…
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is…
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can,…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of…
— Patrick Henry
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