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Can those who believe the computer is "an embodiment of mind" really not tell the difference between so poorly a caricature and the true original?

— Theodore Roszak The Gendered Atom (1999)

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The bond of sympathy, like the artist's eye for beauty, may stretch across many divisions.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

Reduced to the statistical permutations of genes, life became "nothing but" the marriage of chance and selection.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.

The Making of the Counter Culture (1969)

The macho is in the metaphors, not the phenomena.

The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

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