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• Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a…
• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true…
• Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;…
• Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact…
• Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we…
• The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
• How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market…
• There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.
• In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics…
• The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem…
• I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.
• French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted…

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