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Noogenesis

2016-03-23 · 2,601 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Noogenesis — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Even if I could be Shakespeare I think that I should still choose to be Faraday." "We have learned that there is an end
Noogenesis — pen and ink drawing

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"Even if I could be Shakespeare I think that I should still choose to be Faraday."

"We have learned that there is an endocrinology of elation and despair, a chemistry of mystical insight, and, in relation to the autonomic nervous system, a meteorology and even...an astro-physics of changing moods."

"We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends. "

"Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if…

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