My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. - Poul Anderson

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To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

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Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

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In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program

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Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

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At each stage. . . entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?

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We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.

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Criss Jami

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

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Andrew Cohen

I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another. . . And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.

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Israel Horovitz

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We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

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