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Anthony Stevens
(27 Mar 1933 - )
English analyst, psychiatrist and author whose books include Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982) and The Two Million-Year-Old Self (1993).
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Science Quotes by Anthony Stevens (2 quotes)
If sleeping and dreaming do not perform vital biological functions, then they must represent nature's most stupid blunder and most colossal waste of time.
— Anthony Stevens
Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming (1995, 1997), 91.
Mental events proceeding beneath the threshold of consciousness are the substrate upon which all conscious experience depends. To argue that all we need of our mental equipment is that part of which we are conscious is about as helpful as equating the United States with the Senate or England with the Houses of Parliament.
— Anthony Stevens
Quoted in 'Anthony (George) Stevens' in Gale, Contemporary Authors Online (2005).
See also:
- Archetype Revisited: An Updated Natural History of the Self, by Anthony Stevens. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Anthony Stevens.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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