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"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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"When I am lost in the wonder of nature, my life is vivacious."
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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."
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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
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"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"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
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
Children
"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."
Thought
"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
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"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture."
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"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 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."
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"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
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"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."
Nature
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