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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
  -- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
  -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
• Physical reality is consistent with universal laws.
• I think man invented the car by instinct.
• I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. -- Jack Paa
• Physical reality is consistent with universal laws.
  Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality -- we judge reality by the responses of our senses....
• We delivered our child via natural childbirth, the procedure invented by a man named Lamaze--the Marquis de Lamaze, a disciple of Dr.
  Josef Mengele, who concluded that women could counteract the incredible pain of childbirth through breathing....