“A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“A radically unconventional future cannot be accommodated within the framework of plans made for a different world.”
― Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
― Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular processes that occur literally “in our heads.” Therefore, any disorder or alteration of those processes must also have a biological basis.”
― In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
― In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
“If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
― What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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