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Yes, we have a soul. But it is made up of many small robots.

— Giulio Giorello

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From ‘'Corriere della sera’', 1997; quoted in Don Ross, ‘’hl=en&ei=qj3qSs7mPMHVlAf28_z_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Giulio%20Giorello%20piccoli&f=false Distributed cognition and the will: individual volition and social context', 2007, p. 95.

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Geymonat believes that scientific progress can be summed up in the slogan: “challenge and create”: the best service we can render it is therefore to challenge it.

Any human behavior, even the most horrible in the light of certain values, is natural because it is permitted by the laws of nature.

Every culture has a need for the divine, more like a need for love.

Darwin's ‘'Autobiography’' is not only a valuable testimony to the genesis of a concept and the personality of the man who produced it, but also a civic lesson in freedom.

The foundation of ethics is the practice of ethics; there is no need to base it on anything else.

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