Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on Scientific Atheism
“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”
Rupert Sheldrake
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Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Laissez-faire and Government Action
“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Taxation and Productivity
“Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Quote by Rupert Sheldrake on the Evolution of Natural Laws
“I think that the ‘laws of nature’ are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Ludwig von Mises Quote on Capitalism
“Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.”
Ludwig von Mises
Economic Progress – Quote by Ludwig von Mises
“Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.”
Ludwig von Mises
William Blum on the Rationality of Terrorists and Political Causes
“What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.”
William Blum
Gaia Hypothesis by Rupert Sheldrake – Science and Archetype
“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.”
Rupert Sheldrake
Thomas Kuhn on Paradigm Shifts and Scientific Revolutions
“Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world… I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.”
Thomas Kuhn
Quote on National Identity by Robert A. Heinlein
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”
Robert A. Heinlein