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🇫🇷Louis Pasteur

Science

1904–1989

"God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed."

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

"Ingels: "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

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🇦🇹Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Science

1901–1972

"Cybernetics, based upon the principle of feedback or circular causal trains providing mechanisms for goal-seeking and self-controlling behavior."

"Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being."

Francis Maitland Balfour

"Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person."

🇫🇷Jean Pierre Flourens

"Human sexuality is . . . a long way from the depositing of seminal fluid, like squirting jam in a donut."

"Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?"

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🇺🇸Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science

b. 1952

"A life of science struck me as being both interesting and international in character."

"We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong"

"It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it."

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🇨🇦Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Social Activism

environmentalism

b. 1979

"If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it."

"The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs ors."

"Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday."

"There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not."

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed"

"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"

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🇺🇸Edwin Grant Conklin

Science

1863–1952

"Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis."

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."

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🇬🇧Gerald Durrell

Science

"A walk-through How To Shoot An Amateur Naturalist"

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Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

"The more we can be with our own difficulty, our own pain, the easier it is to be with the pain and difficulties of others."

"The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."

"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."

"Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules...were just as experiments suggested?"

"When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos."

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