“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“war doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.”
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
“Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past”
― Thoughts Are Things
― Thoughts Are Things
“...thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.”
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
― One City: A Declaration of Interdependence
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