Jimbo Wales.
There is no radical like your learned radical, bred in the schools; and thoughts of revolution have in our time been harbored in universities as naturally as they were once nourished among the Encyclopedists.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1896
"Note, in passing how easy is the descent from sociobiology to paranoia and, perhaps, how easy is the descent from violent repudiation of sociobiology to paranoia - alas."
—Gregory Bateson 1979
"To think of history as one is to posit the equivalence between three ideas: one time, one humanity, and one history."
—Paul Ricœur 1985
"A Klee drawing named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
—Walter Benjamin 1968
"Præterea censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"
—Cato the Elder 214 BCE
“Imagining the other, in my view, is not only an æsthetic business. It's an ethical imperative. Inside the family—not just between nations or between communities—imagining the other is a moral imperative.
—Amos Oz - "How to Cure a Fanatic"
"I live in a world of others' words".
—Mikhail Bakhtin
"Our German neighbours have ascribed to themselves a Teutonic type that is fair, long-headed, tall and virile. Let us make a composite picture of a typical Teuton from the most prominent of the exponents of this view. Let him be as blond as Hitler, as dolicocephic as Rosenberg, as tall as Goebbels, as slender as Goering and as manly as Streicher. How much would he resemble the German ideal?"
—Julian Huxley & A.C. Haddon, 1936
"Bodies are not designed; they are shaped by natural selection. There is no blueprint, no ideal type. Variation is intrinsic. There is no normal genome. There is no normal body. There is no separate manufacturing facility; there is just the process of development – genes interacting with environments to create adult forms."
—Nesse, R. M. and Stearns, S. C. (2008), The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health. Evolutionary Applications, 1: 28–48.
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