“If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.”

Implosion Magazine, No. 86, p. 11. (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
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austrian philosopher and inventor 1885–1958

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