"In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own."

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I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.

— John Eccles