“The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.”

—  Roger Wolcott Sperry

Source: Science and the Problem of Values (1972), p. 127

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American neuroscientist 1913–1994

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