
“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”
As quoted by Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008) citing Ernest Rutherford Atom Man http://www.nzedge.com/ernest-rutherford/
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: B. F. Skinner actually put forward – and this is a measure of scientific desperation over consciousness – the idea that consciousness was a weird vibrational by-product of the vocal cords. That we did not actually think. We thought we thought because of this weird vibration caused by the vocal cords. This shows the lengths that hard science will go to to banish the ghost from the machine.
“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”
As quoted by Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008) citing Ernest Rutherford Atom Man http://www.nzedge.com/ernest-rutherford/
“Night Is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
The Living City (1958)
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) Introduction
Quote of Filippo Marinetti, in his review 'Poesia' 1905; as cited in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 78
1900's
Fodor (1986) "Why Paramecia Don’t Have Mental Representations," Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10: 3-23. cited in: Bradley Rives " Jerry A. Fodor (1935 – ) http://www.iep.utm.edu/fodor/" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Oct. 25, 2010
Title poem, section VII.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”
Speech in Reading (1 January 1910)
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Source: Mathematical Lectures (1734), p. 44