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Dr. Jennifer Melfi1 quote
Genetic predispositions are only that: predispositions. It’s not a destiny written in stone. People have choices. — Dr. Jennifer Melfi · 1999Niccolo Machiavelli1 quote
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532Norman Cousins1 quote
Free will and determinism... Are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play your hand represents free will. — Norman Cousins · 1951Pierre-Simon Laplace1 quote
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes. — Pierre-Simon Laplace · 1812