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Richard Lewontin

"Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door"

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

Richard Lewontin

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“These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.”
“Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?”
“One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.”
“Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they enjoy, which builds "chunks" of information in their brains.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
“I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.”

Source : David Abram (1996). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World”, Pantheon
“The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.”

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