#evolution

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #african american #american #behavior #behavioral

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american revolution #ancestors #army #continental #fought

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american community #attitude #black #brown #city

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#either #plagiarism #revolution

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#absolutely #change #completely #different #i

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#amazing #change #i #industrial #industrial revolution

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault