"In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves."

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Source : 1993 On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26 Apr.

Jack Horner

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“In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.”
“Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.”
“The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.”
“Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.”
“I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.”
“Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.”
“You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.”

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