"The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years."

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Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books

Ellen Gilchrist

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