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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 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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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 possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…
— G. Stanley Hall
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
— Jane Addams
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
— Pablo Picasso
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Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however,…
— Alfred Einstein
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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…
— George Santayana
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as…
— Mortimer Adler
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