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Evolution Has Long Been Badly Taught. In Particular, Students - And Even Professional Biologists - Acquire Theories Of Evolution Without Any Deep Understanding Of What Problem These Theories Attempt To Solve. They Learn But Little Of The Evolution Of Evolutionary Theory.

Surrender To Alcohol Intoxication Provides A Partial And Subjective Shortcut To A More Correct State Of Mind.

The Map Is Not The Territory (coined By Alfred Korzybski), And The Name Is Not The Thing Named.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

It Is, I Claim, Nonsense To Say That It Does Not Matter Which Individual Man Acted As The Nucleus For The Change. It Is Precisely This That Makes History Unpredictable Into The Future.