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Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

PsyberMagick (1995)

Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.

PsyberMagick (1995)

Chaoist philosophy will again become a dominant intellectual and moral force.

Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

The evolution of consciousness is cyclic in the form of an upward spiral.

Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987)

I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably.

The Apophenion (2008)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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