Man Appears To Be The Missing Link

The Instinctive Need To Be The Member Of A Closely Knit Group Fighting For Common Ideals May Grow So Strong That It Becomes Inessential What These Ideals Are.

Historians Will Have To Face The Fact That Natural Selection Determined The Evolution Of Cultures In The Same Manner As It Did That Of Species.

Every Mutation Through A New Combination Of Genetic Factors That Provides The Organism With A New Opportunity For Coming To Terms With The Conditions Of Its Environment Signifies No More And No Less Than That New Information About This Environment Has Got Into That Organic System. Adaptation Is Essentially A Cognitive Process.

The Attitude Of The True Scientist Towards The Real Limits Of Human Understanding Was Unforgettably Impressed On Me In Early Youth By The Obviously Unpremeditated Words Of A Great Biologist; Alfred Kuhn Finished A Lecture To The Austrian Academy Of Science With Goethe 's Words, "it Is The Greatest Joy Of The Man Of Thought To Have Explored The Explorable And Then Calmly To Revere The Inexplorable." After The Last Word He Hesitated, Raised His Hand In Repudiation And Cried, Above The Applause, "no, Not Calmly, Gentlemen; Not Calmly!

I Have Found The Missing Link Between The Higher Ape And Civilized Man; It Is We.