“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —John Haldane, Possible Worlds (1927)”
― Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
― Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
“A biologist is at first glance perhaps an unlikely source for a new theory of the universe. But at a time when biologists believe they have discovered the “universal cell” in the form of embryonic stem cells, and some cosmologists predict that a unifying theory of the universe may be discovered in the next two decades, it is perhaps inevitable that a biologist finally seeks to unify existing theories of the “physical world” with those of the “living world.”
― Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
― Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
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