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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
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At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,…
— Samuel Johnson
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
— A. S. Byatt
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
— Sun Tzu
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere…
— Louise Bogan
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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be…
— Unknown Author
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