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If the words “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.
– Terence McKenna, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality


Our society desperately needs generalists who traverse several fields and then bring together ideas in ways that specialists may be unable to do, but we seem to be learning more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing.
– Clifford Pickover, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality


One vital characteristic of a highly creative person is that they have at least one other person in their life who doesn’t think they are completely nuts.
– Vera John-Steiner, in Helen Phillips’s “Looking for Inspiration,” New Scientist, October 29, 2005, read in Clifford Pickover’s A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality


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