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Richard Powers

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Control | Reverence | Science | Wonder |

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George Gaylord Simpson

The meaning of evolution is that man is the result of a purposeless, and natural process that did not have us in mind.

Evolution | Man | Meaning | Mind |

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B. F. Skinner, fully Burrhus Frederic "B.F." Skinner

If there is any purpose or direction in the evolution of culture, it has to do with bringing people under the control of more and more of the consequences of behavior.

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Garrett Thomson

While the theory of evolution spells out how the changes take place, any concept of a cosmic plan would specify why.

Evolution | Plan |

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Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

The aim and end of war is murder; the weapons employed in war are espionage, treachery and the encouragement of treachery, the ruining of a country, the plundering and robbing of its inhabitants for the maintenance of the army, and trickery and lying which all appear under the heading of the art of war. The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom – in other words, a rigorous discipline – enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.

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David Bohm, fully David Joseph Bohm

Quantum theory requires us to give up the idea that the electron, or any other object, has, by itself, any intrinsic properties at all.

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Reason provides a means of escaping from the constraints of belief-systems backed by authority and from the resentment which clever people feel at the power of their own passions. Because reason--in admittedly varying degrees--is available to everybody, it has a potential advantage over the truth you feel and the truth you are told.

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Aeschylus NULL

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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Adam Smith

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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