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“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”

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Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

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Book:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“You have to look at history as an evolution of society.”

Looks History Evolution Tourism

Author:Jean Chretien

“An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections

“History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.”

Doe Past Causes History Possibility Evolution Aspect Range Realms

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.”

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Book:The Testimony of the Rocks

Source: The Testimony of the Rocks

“History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.”

Science Time History Events Evolution Structure

Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.”

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Book:Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”

Humans Science History Evolution Scales Human History Succession Large Scale Dynasty

Author:Edmund Beecher Wilson

“The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.”

“Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.”

Matter Science Change History Progress Evolution Ethical Controversy Scientific Progress

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959