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Science, in broad outline, can be divided into three parts: the study of the vast, the study of the tiny, and the study of life which... acts as audience to both the vast and the tiny.

— Theodore Roszak The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (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.

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

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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?

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