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The Cumulative Nature Of The Evolutionary Process, The Fact That Memory Is Preserved, Means That Life Grows Not Just Through A Random Proliferation Of New Forms, But There's A Kind Of Cumulative Quality.

Over The Course Of Fifteen Years Of Research On Plant Development, I Came To The Conclusion That For Understanding The Development Of Plants, Their Morphogenesis, Genes And Gene Products Are Not Enough.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.

A Lot Of Us Have All Sorts Of Ideas, And We Select Some Rather Than Others And Give Expression To Those... And Some Works Of Art Are More Successful Than Others. Some Languish In Obscurity And Are Never Heard Of Again, While Others Form The Foundation Of A Whole School Of Art.

The Assumption That The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal Is A Vestige Of The Christian Belief System That Informed The Early Postulates Of Modern Science In The Seventeenth Century. Perhaps The Laws Of Nature Have Actually Evolved Along With Nature Itself, And Perhaps They Are Still Evolving. Or Perhaps They Are Not Laws At All, But More Like Habits.