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These days, scientists are largely treated like beggars, their tin cups externally extended to the government funding agencies.

— J. Doyne Farmer The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

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Even though something like Danny Hillis' "connection machine" is big, it's nothing compared with Avogadro's number of processors that nature has at her disposal.

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

Once we can manipulate our genome, Lamarckian fashion, the rate of change will be staggering.

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

Our goal is to build a broad-based model of key components of the economy: households, firms, banks and government... The failure to embrace things like simulation has inhibited progress in economics.

If we choose, we can use genetic engineering to alter the character of our offspring. ...the motivation to do this will eventually become overwhelming.

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

When I arrived at college, I immediately took philosophy... Nothing was ever answered. I decided that "Why" questions are simply too deep to be answered with a frontal attack, using the sloppy weapon of human language.

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution ed. John Brockman (1995)

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