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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."
"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
"Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of modern science. Over the foundation of philosophy, history witnessed the daring ventures of human excellence by both philosophical and scientific geniuses, such as Leonardo-da-Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Darwin, Newton and so on. And the chain of reaction they triggered with their extraordinarily abnormal thinking, given their surrounding ignorance and fundamentalism, resulted into the evolution of our modern science."
"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
"I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics."
"I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants."
"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
"There are three states of matter but what state one is in that matters."
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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."
"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."
"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."
"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
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