Quotes by John Cary

“I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.””

“If another memo could possibly be sent out, this one specific to smokers: You cannot be both an unwashed bohemian and Cary Grant.””

“Another mantra, which I still write in chalk on the blackboard, is “A Thousand Details Add Up to One Impression.” It’s actually a quote from Cary Grant.””

“You cannot be both an unwashed bohemian and Cary Grant.””

“Say, bittilbrowed bribour,Why blowes thou such boste?Full false in thy face in faith can I fyndeThou arte combered in curstnesseAnd caris to this coste;To marre men of myghtHaste thou marked in thy mynde.[#XXVI, “The Conspiracy to Take Jesus” ll. 168-172]””

“Nick Bostrom explains that transhumanism is: “the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.”6 Many people (including Bostrom) believe that the word transhumanism originated with atheist Julian Huxley (1887–1975): “ ‘I believe in transhumanism’: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.”7 But Huxley was not the first. The origin of the word transhuman is not secular. Historically, it was first used, not by a scientist in connection with science, but regarding the resurrection of the body by Henry Francis Cary in his 1814 translation of Dante’s Paradiso. It occurs in a passage where Dante tries to imagine the resurrection of his own body: “Words may not tell of that transhuman change.”8””