"Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality"

-- John Searle

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“It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.”
“Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.”
“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”
“There is no evil that the fatherâ€™s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.”
“When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.”
“. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film . . ..”
“Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.”

Source : "Educational handicap, public policy, and social history". Book by Seymour Bernard Sarason, ‎John Doris, p. 32, 1979.
“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.”

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