“Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.” YearsHumansWellsChildrenHas BeensShowsGivenAbilityAdultsTasksComparisonVillageMonkeysBostonAmazonDots Author:Elizabeth Spelke
“Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.” MenMadeShowsGamesGenderLondonComparisonCompetitorsGender Equality Author:Donna de Varona
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.” WorldShouldWellsLooksShowsRealityImaginationInformationProduceTaughtPaintingProfessionPainterComparisonPoeticAnxious Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.” IfsMenWorldRealSoulHardStoriesShowsSeemsUniverseRaceAtheismTheoryTypeDramaEssentialsEternalBelieverDialogueGentlemanComparisonImmortalSecularUnfoldingPuppetsTrivialityImmortal SoulPuppet Shows Author:Joseph McCabe