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“Intelligent Design is fraught with even more difficulties, as it suggests God as one who dips His hand in every now and then to bring about the first microbial life, to bring about new forms during...”
“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”
“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.”
“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.”
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptancebetokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absence of skepticism, a need to replace experiments ...”
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discover...”
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that animals try to spread their genes. That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothing...”
“[I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual expression as it is to communication. Even though you probably won't gesture a...”
“At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.”
“[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.”
“You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.”
“This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger”
“It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.”
“Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.”
“I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve ...”
“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.”
“The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of adaptation through maladaptation which is characteristic of our speciesthe hunger of imaginat...”
“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adol...”
