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George Gaylord Simpson

"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material."

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

George Gaylord Simpson

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“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”

Source : "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.
“Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.”
“Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.”
“A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.”
“People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.”
“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.”
“I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.”
“I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.”

"Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material."

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