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" Science is all metaphor. "
Timothy Leary
Science
Metaphor
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" Think for yourself and question authority. "
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" Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. "
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" When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. "
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" In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology. "
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Change
Enough
" From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain. "
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" My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher. "
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Philosopher
Profession
" In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. "
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You
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" Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. "
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Equal
Lack
" Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. "
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Civilization
Less
" At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero. "
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Head
World
" The universe is an intelligence test. "
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Universe
Intelligence
Test
" You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. "
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You
Needle
Up
" The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding. "
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Our
Understanding
Anxiety
" You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. "
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Time
Last
Change
" Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. "
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Turn
Out
Drop
" There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. "
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Three
Side
Forget
" If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. "
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Doing
Move
Always
" We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. "
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Generation
History
Intelligence
" Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth. "
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You
Performance
Back
" The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon. "
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Well
May
Man
" I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. "
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Specific
Want
Back
" I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person. "
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Change
Medical
Giving
" When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all. "
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People
Walk
Generation