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"I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture."
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"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
Information
"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
Artist
"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
People
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
Personality
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
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"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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Personal Development
"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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Personal Development
"Curiosity is a daring faith."
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Personal Development
"Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!"
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Personal Development
"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
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Personal Development
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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Personal Development
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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Personal Development
"There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go."
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Personal Development
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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