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"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."
"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."
"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."
"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
"Love has no meaning without understanding."
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"I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species."
"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."
"The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy."
"Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight."
"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
"Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances."
"Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century."
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