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Quote by Arthur Koestler
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mar

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. – Arthur Koestler

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. – Arthur Koestler

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In each generation the human mind in every man reverts to its starting-point; each new man is a primitive man. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. – Ashley Montagu

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Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. – Author Unknown

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

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