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"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
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"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."
"Much more plausible is the computer-based explanation that dreams are a spillover from the unconscious processing of the day's experience, from the brain's decision on how much of the daily events temporarily stored in a kind of buffer to emplace in long-term memory... The American psychiatrist Ernest Hartmann of Tufts University has providedanecdotal but reasonably persuasive evidence that people who are engaged in intellectual activities during the day, especially unfamiliar intellectual activities, require more sleep at night, while, by and large, those engaged in mainly repetitive and intellectually unchallenging tasks are able to do with much less sleep."
"Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring thecomplete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms ofatmospheric radiation transmission."
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"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."
"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."
"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."
"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body."
"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."
"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."
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