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• ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
• There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
• Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
• If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
• The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
• In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
• As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
• The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
• In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
• When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
• No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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