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Week 15 (Extra Quote)

"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." - Ursula Le Guin

I absolutely loved, loved, loved reading this story. My favorite read of the semester, hands down.

Week 14

 "Actually it was very largely the refugee scientists in England and in the United States who took the first steps to interest their governments in the making of atomic explosives and who took some steps, very primitive ones, in thinking out how this might be done and what might be involved in it" - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Week 13

"I "struggled" -- using all the metaphors morality and social convention could provide in defense of monogamy--but finally "succumbed" to desire." - Hank Pine 

Week 12

"However, it is a giant leap from observing that there are neurological differences between the sexes
to assuming that these differences correspond to the classic Reason/Nature or logic/emotion dichotomies" - Robin Turner

Week 11

"The relationship between genes and cells is exceedingly indirect; there are no blueprints or maps to guide our genes as they build or rebuild the body" - Marvin Minsky

Week 10

"The impulse to avoid harm, which gives trolley ponderers the willies when they consider throwing a man off a bridge, can also be found in rhesus monkeys, who go hungry rather than pull a chain that delivers food to them and a shock to another monkey" - Steven Pinker