"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

Art, Religion, Science, Commerce

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"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."

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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA."

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"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

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