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«The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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Evolution
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evolution, organ, overshoots, overshot, prehistoric, providing, species, The Brain
«The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.»
«Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.»
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket
«Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.»
«The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Ethics
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ethics, evolution, first step, solidarity, step in
«Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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abrupt, educational, evolution, pattern, studies, surprising, The Forward, trend, trends
«The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Advances, blind, Blind Faith, certain, evolution, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, genuine, lie, mankind, path, rational, religiosity, seems, spiritual, spiritual being, spiritual death, Spiritual evolution, striving, strivings, The Fear, The Path, The Spiritual
«The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Knowledge,
Progress
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allows, describe, detail, enabling, evolution, grasp, in detail, more and more, world view
«Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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ascending, ascends, dissolution, evolution, followed, line, progress, retrogression, rhythms, rhythm and, spiral, spiraling, spirals, straight
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