“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.” ThinkingSpiritualMoralProgressCenturyEvolutionKingsCivilizationFoundationDeterminedPriestsDragConsolationBrutesInhuman Author:John Derbyshire
“I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessary -- being determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived.” Has BeensIdeasCertainOrderAttentionStepsDoubtEvolutionPaidDeterminedMathematicalAnalysisLogicalConceptionNew IdeasIntroductionDeductionsMathematical Analysis Book:A Treatise on Differential Equations Source: A Treatise on Differential Equations
“The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.” DifferentFormCultureTheoryEvolutionCircumstancesProveSpeciesPatternsDeterminedArisePrevailingMutation Book:Science And Human Behavior Source: Science And Human Behavior
“You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.” WorldWayDifferentFactsHappensLanguageNumbersPrinciplesImagineHappenedEvolutionOrganizationBasesStructureSpeciesDeterminedVarietyAbstractDifferent WorldsIntricateConstrainLearning Language Author:Noam Chomsky
“Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.” ThinkingWorldImportantPastAttentionModernEvolutionHealthyValuableDeterminedAdvertisingAncestorClueHuman Evolution Author:Gordon Hempton
“Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.” FactsFacesScienceCultureNaturalEvolutionSpeciesDeterminedLibertarianHistorianSelectionNatural Selection Book:On aggression Source: On aggression
“The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.” MayScienceCoursesCausesEnvironmentEvolutionBalanceAdvantageConstitutionSpeciesFinalsDeterminedZoneZeroGenesSelectiveSubstitutionNeighbourhoodsRegression Author:Ronald Fisher
“The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God, or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science. In either case, it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science, so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate.” MayHas BeensSeemsLawUniverseDifficultCasesFateMastersEvolutionDeterminedChosenFree WillInitialsConfigurationChosen By God Author:Stephen Hawking
“The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.” WantChildrenHelpingMovingCultureUnderstandingJusticeStageExpressionReturnEvolutionAmountDiversitySocial JusticeHistoricalBetrayalDeterminedDecadesHealUnexpectedAbandonmentHatefulWondrousNew DirectionsExpressions Of Love Author:Lloyd deMause