“Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years. …They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis.”

—  Sigmund Freud , book Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
1920s

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