In Creating The Human Brain, Evolution Has

If Power Corrupts, The Reverse Is Also True; Persecution Corrupts The Victims Though Perhaps In Subtler And More Tragic Ways.

Aggressiveness Is Not The Main Trouble With The Human Species, But Rather An Excess Capacity For Fanatical Devotion.

Man's Destiny Was No Longer Determined From 'above' By A Super-human Wisdom And Will, But From 'below' By The Sub-human Agencies Of Glands, Genes, Atoms, Or Waves Of Probability. ...they Could Determine His Fate, But Could Provide Him With No Moral Guidance, No Values And Meaning. A Puppet Of The Gods Is A Tragic Figure, A Puppet Suspended On His Chromosomes Is Merely Grotesque.

If Time Is Treated In Modern Physics As A Dimension On A Par With The Dimensions Of Space, Why Should We A Priori Exclude The Possibility That We Are Pulled As Well As Pushed Along Its Axis? The Future Has, After All, As Much Or As Little Reality As The Past, And There Is Nothing Logically Inconceivable In Introducing, As A Working Hypothesis, An Element Of Finality, Supplementary To The Element Of Causality, Into Our Equations. It Betrays A Great Lack Of Imagination To Believe That The Concept Of "purpose" Must Necessarily Be Associated With Some Anthropomorphic Deity.

Among All Forms Of Mentation, Verbal Thinking Is The Most Articulate, The Most Complex, And The Most Vulnerable To Infectious Diseases. It Is Liable To Absorb Whispered Suggestions, And To Incorporate Them As Hidden Persuaders Into The Code.