Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation...

There is the potential for a particle of matter to be located where we expect it to be or to be located anywhere in the physical world. So it is with our lives – our...

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in...

Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.

If life is an evolving process, then consistent change is the only resolving mechanism to problematic cases

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and “fundamentally real,” while our most...

The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can...

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

…all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to be processed, packaged...

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.