“They don't change the analytic, reductive methodology, just the interpretations and conclusions. There seems little to lose, and much to gain.”
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Context: I think time will show that the new approach, emphasizing emergent "macro" control, is equally valid in all the physical sciences, and that the behavioral and cognitive disciplines are leading the way to a more valid framework for all science. Although the theoretic changes make little difference in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and so on, they are crucial for the behavioral, social, and human sciences. They don't change the analytic, reductive methodology, just the interpretations and conclusions. There seems little to lose, and much to gain.
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“Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker."
-Dan Cahill”
Source: The Medusa Plot

James M. McPherson. "Revisionist Historians" https://web.archive.org/web/20040623155609/http://historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2003/0309/0309pre1.cfm (September 2003), Perspectives, American Historical Association.
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“Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
Zion Train
Uprising (1979)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 41

Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology (1967)
Source: page 185-186.
"More Time for a Child" (written by Amber's sister, Anne-Fleur Cremers), My Kind of World (2004).

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

My Dear and only Love. Compare: "That puts it not unto the touch/ To win or lose it all", Sir W. F. P. Napier, Montrose and the Covenanters, vol. ii. p. 566.