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“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too.”

Men Made Earth Past Desire Answers Stage Development Evolution Late Illusion Addresses Inquiry Compensation Desire For Knowledge History Of Life

Author:Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

“Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow.”

“I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominoid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination.”

Needs Kind Made Use Opportunity Imagination Records Events Information Evolution Exercise Patterns Broads Vehicle Diverse Fossils Enjoyable Integrating

Author:David Pilbeam

“I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.”

World Made Whole Creation Evolution Hippo

Book:The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine

“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.”

Thinking Humans Made Two Opportunity Race Effects Regret Evolution Cost Commit Reputation Human Race Folly Grotesque Larks

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

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

Made Attitude Opinion Evolution Capitalism Economics Institutions

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

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

“I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.”

Thinking Men Made Ideas Numbers Seeing Evolution Projects Scientist Originals Dollars Climate Climate Change Data Global Warming Questioning Rolling Original Ideas

Author:Rick Perry

“In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.”