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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
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Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
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The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
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Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
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We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and…
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Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.
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But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as…
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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
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Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
— Karl Marx
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Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the…
— Leland Stanford
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Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.
— Daniel D. Palmer
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
— David Foster Wallace
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The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.
— Stephen Grosz
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are…
— George Bernard Shaw
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