"After chiding the theologian for his reliance on……" — Loren Eiseley
"After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past."
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Loren Eiseley
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73 Quotes by Loren Eiseley
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called…
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity,…
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
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