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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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Future
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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Learning
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Attacks on a politicians identity – questioning Romneys religion, say, or Obamas birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and cant sell himself. – Jon Meacham

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion. – George Whitefield

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It is fear that first brought gods into the world. – Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon

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When chill Novembers surly blast make fields and forest bare. – Robert Burns

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. – Thomas Jefferson

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. – Annie Dillard

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The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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