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1. “What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.”

Ivan Turgenev

Desire, Body, Science, Curiosity, Physicality

2. “A man is capable of understanding everything – how the ether vibrates and what happens on the sun. But to understand how another man can blow his nose differently from the way he blows his own is something beyond his capability.”

Ivan Turgenev

Understanding, Irony, Humanity, Science, Complexity

3. “If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct – unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.”

Camille Paglia

Gender, Future, Science, Society, Feminism

4. “Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.”

Camille Paglia

Science, Nature, Philosophy, Power, Fate

5. “Science is a method of logical analysis of nature’s operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature’s forces, and their frequent predictability.”

Camille Paglia

Science, Philosophy, Nature, Anxiety, Logic

6. “Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

Camille Paglia

Bodybuilding, Sport, Art, Science, Nature

7. “Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”

Camille Paglia

Science, Apollonian, Intellect, Classification, Knowledge

8. “Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?”

Charles Lamb

Science, Poetry, Change, Childhood, Progress

9. “Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”

Charles Lamb

Progress, Science, Change, Civilization, Consequences

10. “In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”

Charles Lamb

Knowledge, Learning, Science, Progress, Reflection

11. “The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.”

Margaret Fuller

Science, Facts, Knowledge, Discovery, Purpose

12. “I donated my body to science... fiction.”

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