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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.


Gertrude Stein


#gertrude-stein #information #natural #nature

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.


Charlotte Brontë


#amalgamation #association #influence #nature #nature

The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was actually removing oxygen. The theory was a total misrepresentation of reality. Phlogiston did not even exist, and yet its existence was firmly believed and the theory adhered to rigidly for nearly one hundred years throughout the eighteenth century. ... As experimentation continued the properties of phlogiston became more bizarre and contradictory. But instead of questioning the existence of this mysterious substance it was made to serve more comprehensive purposes. ... For the skeptic or indeed to anyone prepared to step out of the circle of Darwinian belief, it is not hard to find inversions of common sense in modern evolutionary thought which are strikingly reminiscent of the mental gymnastics of the phlogiston chemists or the medieval astronomers. To the skeptic, the proposition that the genetic programmes of higher organisms, consisting of something close to a thousand million bits of information, equivalent to the sequence of letters in a small library of one thousand volumes, containing in encoded form countless thousands of intricate algorithms controlling, specifying and ordering the growth and development of billions and billions of cells into the form of a complex organism, were composed by a purely random process is simply an affront to reason. But to the Darwinist the idea is accepted without a ripple of doubt - the paradigm takes precedence!


Michael Denton


#coincidence #consensus #darwinism #evolution #macro-evolution

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet.


Lao Tzu


#religion #religion

Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.


C.S. Lewis


#religion-christianity #social-psychology #religion

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.


James Gleick


#randomness #science #science

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.


Nelson Goodman


#philosophy #philosophy-of-science #pragmatism #science

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.


John F. Kennedy


#dogmatism #comfort

More than a hygenic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity: The ashes of Domitian were mingled with those of Julia; of Achilles with those of Patroclus; All Urnes contained not single ashes; Without confused burnings they affectionately compounded their bones; passionately endeavouring to continue their living Unions. And when distance of death denied such conjunctions, unsatisfied affections concieved some satisfaction to be neighbours in the grave, to lye Urne by Urne, and touch but in their names.


Catharine Arnold


#death #urns #death

I offer my body and soul to you and Cameron till death parts us!


Lia Davis


#ashwood-falls #leopard #lia-davis #romance #shapeshifter






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