Theodore Roszak - Matter Quotes

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Life... becomes an anomalous puzzle that cannot be "explained" until scientists in laboratories find a way to animate the dead matter that is the normal condition of things. This amounts to saying that life has no "place" in the world until men—the gender that originally dominated the world and still does—can create it... in a laboratory and express it in a formula. Only then will we "understand" what life is.

Theodore Roszak

Because girls are raised to specialize in a certain set of human characteristics, would they not, then, bring to science a different sensibility? Does that sensibility have the right to be represented in science—or, for that matter, in business, politics, law, or medicine?

Theodore Roszak

The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual.

Theodore Roszak