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"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
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"Number is different from quantity."
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"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
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Personal Development
"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."
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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."
First
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
Energy
"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."
Money
"Logic is a poor model of cause and effect."
Cause
"It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future."
History
"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"
Nature
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
Numbers
"Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause."
Cause
"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."
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"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."
Family
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