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“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”

Men Important Universe Sides Talent Materials Concepts Structure Solar System Dogmatic Origin Of Man

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“To discover the laws of operative power in material productions, whether formed by man or brought into being by Nature herself, is the work of a science, and is indeed what we more especially term Science.”

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Book:Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...

Source: Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...

“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.”

“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.”

Ifs Men Use Tree Materials Broken Universal Horse Substance Mold

Book:The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

Source: The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”

Men Character Would Be Existence Materials Circumstances Creatures Mark One Man Architect Bricks Palaces Warehouse Mortar Villa Bricks And Mortar

Book:The Works of Goethe

Source: The Works of Goethe