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Quotes from Science and the Problem of Values — Roger Wolcott Sperry

1913–1994 United States

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It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such.

Science and the Problem of Values (1972)

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

Science and the Problem of Values (1972)

The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.

Science and the Problem of Values (1972)

The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.

Science and the Problem of Values (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Wolcott Sperry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.