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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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Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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Evolution is individual — devolution is collective. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

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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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