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"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."
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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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"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."
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"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."
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"The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be."
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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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"We do not take humor seriously enough."
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"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
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