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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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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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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
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We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing…
— Jean Klein
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
— Henry Walter Bates
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether…
— Max Wertheimer
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
— Georges Cuvier
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There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with…
— Paul Gauguin
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When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications,…
— Satyajit Ray
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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