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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
Time
"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
Life
"When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown."
People
"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis."
Needs
"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
Innovation
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."
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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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"We pass through this world but once."
World
"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."
Superiority
"Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition."
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"It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor."
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"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."
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"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."
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"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."
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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
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