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"If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle."
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"You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man."
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"There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival."
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"Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt."
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"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."
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"As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them."
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"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."
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"Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of death and the dark."
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"For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners."
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"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."
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"The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any earlier."
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"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
God
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Work
"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
Music
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act
"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
Imagination
"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
Thought
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
Events
"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
Life
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