Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 20
Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 338 quoting from Session 269
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 20
“Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
Jay Lemke (1946) American academic
Source: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 159
Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) American evolutionary biologist
Cited in the book: Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: We produce these representations in and from ourselves with the same necessity with which the spider spins. If we are forced to comprehend all things only under these forms, then it ceases to be amazing that in all things we actually comprehend nothing but these forms. For they must all bear within themselves the laws of number, and it is precisely number which is most astonishing in things. All that conformity to law, which impresses us so much in the movement of the stars and in chemical processes, coincides at bottom with those properties which we bring to things. Thus it is we who impress ourselves in this way
John Dalton (1766–1844) English chemist, meteorologist and physicist
A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=Wp7QAAAAMAAJ (1808) as quoted by Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008)
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1950s, The Skills of the Economist, 1958, p. 9
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848) Swedish chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Essai sur le théorie des proportions chimiques (1819). Translated in Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein, A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900 (1952), 260.
George Gilder (1939) technology writer
Replies when he asked the reasons why he supported the Intelligent Design movement, in his interview with the Boston Globe (27 July 2005)
Context: I'm not pushing to have [ ID ] taught as an alternative to Darwin, and neither are they... What’s being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there’s a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content... Much of what I've written about has been in reaction to the materialist superstition, the belief that the universe is a purely material phenomenon that can be reduced to physical and chemical laws. It's a concept that's infected the social sciences as well.
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist
As quoted in the closing address by Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, at the Memorial Service for Osborn at St. Bartholomew's Church, N.Y. (18 December 1935); published in "Henry Fairfield Osborn", Supplement to Natural History, Vol. 37, no. 2 (February 1936), p. 133 <!-- Bound in Kofoid Collection of Pamphlets on Biography, University of California -->
Context: Every breath you draw, every accelerated beat of your heart in the emotional periods of your oratory depend upon highly elaborated physical and chemical reactions and mechanisms which nature has been building up through a million centuries. If one of these mechanisms, which you owe entirely to your animal ancestry, were to be stopped for a single instant, you would fall lifeless on the stage. Not only this, but some of your highest ideals of human fellowship and comradeship were not created in a moment, but represent the work of ages.