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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the…
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A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…
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The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…
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The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in…
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…
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The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.…
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Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized…
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If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500…
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Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and…
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical…
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A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…
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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to…
— J M Coetzee
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Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive…
— Richard Tarnas
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes…
— Fritjof Capra
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look…
— Story Musgrave
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Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals…
— Zeena Schreck
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly…
— Carl Sagan
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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
— Paul Watson
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To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and…
— E. O. Wilson
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans…
— Frans de Waal
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws…
— Paul Watson
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In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the…
— Dennis Prager
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