Timothy Leary
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"Timothy Francis Leary" was an American psychologist and writer, known for advocating psychedelic drugs. During American legality of Lysergic acid diethylamide/LSD and psilocybin, Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Though obtaining useful data, Leary and his associate Richard Alpert (professor)/Richard Alpert were fired by Harvard University amid controversy surrounding such drugs.

Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy such as "turn on, tune in, drop out" (a phrase given to Leary by Marshall McLuhan); "set and setting"; and "Question Authority/think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanism/transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension (SMIĀ²LE), and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977).

During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 29 different prisons worldwide. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".

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There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.

Science is all metaphor.

The universe is an intelligence test.

A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Turn on, tune in and drop out.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.