'Only IGNORANCE or duplicity permits the conclusion that,
in the state of the biosphere and its physical environment,
all is well.
 'The flight from science and reason',
Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1996, vol. 775, p. 207.

'Mystical explanations were invented when scientific answers were lacking'
by J.A. Behnke, C.E. Finch & G.B. Moment, 1978.
in THE BIOLOGY OF AGING, Preface, Plenum Press NY & London

'Si l'ignorance de la nature donna la naissance aux dieux,
la connaissance de la nature est fait pour les detruire'
[If ignorance of nature gave birth to the gods, knowledge of nature is destined to destroy them]
by P.H. d'Holbach [1723-1789] in SYSTEME DE LA NATURE, pt. 2, ch.1

'The time will come when the sun will shine only on free man
who know no other master but their reason;
when tyrants and slaves, priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments
will exist only in works of history and on the stage..'
by J-A-N de Condorcet [1743-1794]
in Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Esprit Humain, 1795

'Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths'
by K. Popper, THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
in British Philosophy in the mid-century, C.A. Mace Ed.

'..it appears that man's distinguishing characteristics,
an unusually long period of physical and mental health,
and superior cognitive ability,
although extremely complicated phenotypically,
are nevertheless controlled by simple genetic regulatory processes.
I am optimistic that both of these characteristics can and should be enhanced.'
by R. G. Cutler, 1978, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF SENESCENCE
in THE BIOLOGY OF AGING, Plenum Press NY & London

'..life exists at the edge of chaos... near a kind of phase transition..

..if we are ...natural expressions of matter and energy
coupled together in non equilibrium systems,
if life in its abundance were bound
to arise, not as an incalculably improbable accident,
but as an expected fulfillment of the natural order,
then we truly are at home in the universe.'
by S. KAUFFMAN in AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE,
The search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, 1995, Oxford University Press, NY & Oxford