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Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.


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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.



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We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.



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Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.



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Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.



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Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.



The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.



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If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.



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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.





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