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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.

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The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

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Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Boris Sidis

Boris Sidis

Born: October 12, 1867
Died: October 24, 1923 (aged 56)
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