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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost ...more

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it ...more

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood willone day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples signifi...more

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The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelli...more

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence...more

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Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions—say 10 percent—of its brain were removed. But no ...more

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Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, h...more

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Somewhere in the steaming jungles of the Carboniferous Period there emerged an organism that for the first time in the history of the world had more i...more

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a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucleotides… But since there are four different kinds o...more

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This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without...more

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with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devote substantial attention to the care of their young...more

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Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes mor...more