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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. – Sir Arthur Eddington

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager. – William S. Burroughs

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… a total being who can do many different things – think, fight, remember, love, anticipate, copulate, sing, laugh, imagine. All the activities can be used for good ends, all can be abused and turned to evil ends. – Robert McAfee Brown

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