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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
— John Banville
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as…
— John Berger
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater…
— Walter Scott
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…
— John Marsden
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Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose…
— Vanna Bonta
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It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that…
— Thomas Paine
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In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of…
— John Dewey
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Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your…
— Vincent McNabb
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Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did…
— Christopher Hitchens
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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
— John Marsden
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