"It is a point where our old models……" — Vernor Vinge

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• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. — William Shakespeare
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• [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best… — Carl Sagan
• For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions… — Rajneesh
• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms… — William H. Masters
• I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological,… — Ivan Pavlov
• Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded… — George H. Smith
• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said… — Thomas Nagel

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