It Ought To Be Realized By All

A Man Sufficiently Gifted With Humor Is In Small Danger Of Succumbing To Flattering Delusions About Himself, Because He Cannot Help Perceiving What A Pompous Ass He Would Become If He Did.

Natural Selection Does Not Give Any Preference At All To Anything That, In The Long Run, Could Be Advantageous For The Species But Blindly Rewards Everything That, Momentarily, Affords Greater Procreative Success.

Nothing Can Better Express The Feelings Of The Scientist Towards The Great Unity Of The Laws Of Nature Than In Immanuel Kant's Words: "two Things Fill The Mind With Ever New And Increasing Awe: The Stars Above Me And The Moral Law Within Me."... Would He, Who Did Not Yet Know Of The Evolution Of The World Of Organisms, Be Shocked That We Consider The Moral Law Within Us Not As Something Given, A Priori, But As Something Which Has Arisen By Natural Evolution, Just Like The Laws Of The Heavens?

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

More Than Any Other Product Of Human Scientific Culture Scientific Knowledge Is The Collective Property Of All Mankind.