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It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.

— 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.

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)

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?

The Gendered Atom (1999)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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