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"The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects."

— Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception)

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October 01, 2011

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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning."

— Max Planck

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September 27, 2011

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"What I’ve endeavored to say in all my books is that the flaw in our civilization isn’t in the people, it’s in the system. It’s true that the system has been clanking along for ten thousand years, which is a long time in the timescale of an individual life, but when viewed in the timescale of human history, this episode isn’t remarkable for its epic length but for its tragic brevity."

— Daniel Quinn (Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure)

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September 27, 2011

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I Love Calvin & his Hobes

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September 24, 2011

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September 18, 2011

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"To believe that ‘Human beings are the best that evolution has produced’ is similar to believing that ‘The Earth is the center of the Universe’."

— Rawjeev

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September 12, 2011

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"The organism and the environment are not actually separately determined. The environment is not a structure imposed on living beings from the outside but is in fact a creation of those beings. The environment is not an autonomous process but a reflection of the biology of the species. Just as there is no organism without an environment, so there is no environment without an organism."

— Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, Eleanor Rosch ( The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience)

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September 12, 2011

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"Evolution is a process that sorts for what works, and “better” is discarded as easily as “worse”—if it doesn’t work"

— Daniel Quinn (The Story of B)

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September 12, 2011

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