Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
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There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aid...
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
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Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
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I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must ...
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
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Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.
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