“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.” IfsKindSelfOpinionCreativeTypeDependsPeriodsMajorsBasesAbsolutesFoundationSpeciesFolksToneWorking ItTwelveMinorsEvidentPeasantsUnthinkableCreative WorkFolk Music Author:Bela Bartok
“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.” ThinkingLooksLongRealizingPeriodsBiggerSpeciesFossilsAdaptingLong Periods Of TimeBigger Picture Author:Louise Leakey
“The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.” PeopleMenIdeasModernPeriodsSpeciesAcceptedDescent Author:Manisha Sinha
“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.” YearsBelieveReasonEarthThreeMillionsHugePeriodsYears AgoDestructionSpeciesScalesDestroyedMassiveQuartersFifthExtinctionAsteroids Author:Noam Chomsky