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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
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In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative…
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The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges,…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment…
— Irving Babbitt
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History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
— Gordon S. Wood
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I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of…
— J. Irwin Miller
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
— J. Irwin Miller
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The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we…
— Michelle Obama
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The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to…
— Stephen D. Cox
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There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics,…
— Robert Watson-Watt
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We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of…
— David Krieger
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