Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
From Konrad Lorenz
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
We do not take humor seriously enough.
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.
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