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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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"The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind."
"Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty of natural selection is that our struggle against nature made us worthy of being rewarded with the 3 lbs. lump of highly advanced biological computer by our Mother Nature herself."
"Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals " although a case could be made for the dolphins " because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
"The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense."
"The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't."
"If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God."
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"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."
"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war."
"Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one."
"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."
"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
"I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive."
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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