“ Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. Ronald A. Fisher
“ It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. Pavlov believed that the ideal, the end we all struggle toward in science, is… Thomas Pynchon
“ All around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to be pr… Christopher Isherwood
“ There is the potential for a particle of matter to be located where we expect it to be or to be located anywhere in the physical world. So it is with our lives – our very next moment can occur along t… Kevin Michel
“ By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“ I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellatio… Martin Ryle
“ The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is… Alexandra Katehakis
“ We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally r… William Barrett
