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If you want the answer to persisting gender inequalities, stop peering suspiciously at society and take a look right over here, please, at this brain scan. If only it were that simple.
“Death is the ultimate disappointment.”
― Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
― Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If we consider the scale of the universe, we begin to see just how ridiculous belief in astrology can be.”
― Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
― Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
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