Max More famous quotes
04-05-2025
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To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.
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We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.
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No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.
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Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
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As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
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Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
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I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.
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