
Pilot [1.1] (10 September 1993)
The X-Files (1993-2002)
Pilot [1.1] (10 September 1993) Scully to Section Chief Blevins
The X-Files (1993-2002)
Pilot [1.1] (10 September 1993)
The X-Files (1993-2002)
“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it”
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 26
Referenced
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 7
Source: "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure", 1976, p. 308
To Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Quoted in "The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966
“Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents.”
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents. There is no finality about the process, and no automatic or unified progress; but much improvement has occurred in the past, and there could be much further improvement in the future (though there is also the possibility of future failure and regression). Thus the central long-term concern of religion must be to promote further evolutionary improvement and to realise new possibilities; and this means greater fulfilment by more human individuals and fuller achievement by more human societies.
Quoted in "Thus Spake Germany" - Page 30 - by W. W. Coole, Władysław Wszebór Kulski, M. F. Potter - 1941
“Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must.”
"—All You Zombies—" (1958)
Context: I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came in. I noted the time — 10: 17 P. M. zone five, or eastern time, November 7th, 1970. Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must.
The Unmarried Mother was a man twenty-five years old, no taller than I am, childish features and a touchy temper. I didn't like his looks — I never had — but he was a lad I was here to recruit, he was my boy. I gave him my best barkeep's smile.