Quoted multiple times, sourced from Knowyourmeme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan.
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)
“Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.”
“The Masters” p. 46 (originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February 1963)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture.”
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 3
“I’m a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena”
Varela (1990) Cited in: D. Rudrauf (2003) " From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/bres/v36n1/art05.pdf". In: Biol Res 36: 27-65
John Maynard Smith (1988) Games, sex and evolution. p. 249.
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Context: When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a "Newtonian," or if he is a "Pasteurian". There are truths so evident, so much a part of people's knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.
Source: An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), Part 3: Regulation and control, p. 196
A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
Context: There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule. I know very well that this idea of spirit-matter is regarded as a hybrid monster, a verbal exorcism of a duality which remains unresolved in its terms. But I remain convinced that the objections made to it arise from the mere fact that few people can make up their minds to abandon an old point of view and take the risk of a new idea. … Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. For in fact, pure spirituality is as unconceivable as pure materiality. Just as, in a sense, there is no geometrical point, but as many structurally different points as there are methods of deriving them from different figures, so every spirit derives its reality and nature from a particular type of universal synthesis.
His view on the issue of life originating in space.
Jayant Narlikar's Cosmology
"The Decline of Academic Freedom at Dartmouth College", 20 October 2005.
Letter published in "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth", 2005
