"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter."

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"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter."

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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Science, Enemy, Caution, Inquiry

"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

Science, Medicine, Knowledge, Ignorance, Humanity

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Science, Understanding, Life, Evolution

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them."

Steven Magee, British Author

Science, Light, Knowledge, Truth

"It is a sad state of affairs that I donot know of any astronomer who fully understands the energy in their own daily environment. Untilthat changes, Dark Energy will always be a mystery to the astronomical community."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."

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"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

"Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented."

"It is a sad state of affairs that I donot know of any astronomer who fully understands the energy in their own daily environment. Untilthat changes, Dark Energy will always be a mystery to the astronomical community."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."