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“Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution”

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Author:Eric Beinhocker

“I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.”

“Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.”

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Author:Karl Popper

“Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process”

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Author:Gerald Edelman

“It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice”

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Author:David Landes

“Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism”

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Book:Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 1:

Source: Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 1:

“The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.”

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Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.”

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Author:Ralph Raico

“Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.”

“International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.”

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Author:Robert Kagan

“Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.”