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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cdaedac | it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether! | Donna Freitas | ||
| 00e2ccf | This is what I imagined as I watched my kite, my beautiful kite, with its heart, its star and crayon, its note and flowers glowing from the light of the sun behind it. I felt love and grief and joy and all the emotions in between, letting my weathered broken heart knit itself back together again as I said goodbye to my mother. Our imaginations are such gifts, she used to say. So I thanked her for mine. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 7a250e6 | For me to give someone a firm and enthusiastic yes or no is to presume the person I am saying yes or no to is my equal, or at least someone I feel equal to saying yes or no to, as though they are a partner, a friend, someone with whom I am on the same footing. It presumes I am in possession of some power in the situation. It presumes the other person sees me as an equal, or something like a peer, and is waiting to see if they are going to g.. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 775d06f | There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no -- not a maybe-yes or maybe-no -- but more of a hovering, a being caught and not knowing where else to go or how to move without making things much worse. So you stay put. You hold the person off as best you can without causing them to retaliate too terribly, and because yo.. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 5808135 | Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 708bb44 | There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 516a8bc | I remembered the words in the note Mom left in my Survival Kit about using my imagination. Finally, after all this time, I felt its wheels begin to turn again, slowly at first, as if they were rusty, then with more confidence, as if someone had flipped on a switch. In the light of this awareness, I began to have faith that my mother was still with me, embedded and woven into this part of me I`d tried so hard to bury, the part that was most .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| a02201b | I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and narrowly. They took on a life of their own, a life that I was giving them now. | Donna Freitas | ||
| ff1f162 | Music hadn`t always deepened my grief. For most of my sixteen years, it had healed my hurts, soothed them, given me a way to remember and the strength to move on. | Donna Freitas | ||
| ae67f13 | All around the country, at universities far and wide, at workplaces of all sizes and types, at companies that boast of doing good and making the world a better place, there are file cabinets full of the bloody tongues of women. Some are young and tender, others more weathered and battered, but all of them taken from us by people in business-casual attire, in suits and sensible skirts, walking up to us as though what they are about to do is .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 88aa2ab | There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no. That space is not a compromise--not a maybe-yes or maybe-no--but more of a hovering, a being caught and not knowing where else to go or how to move without making things much worse. So you stay put. You hold the person off as best you can without causing them to retaliate .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 4dc5843 | I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can't speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively occupies the title of survivor, I still claim the territory of the shivering, cowering victim. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 6f427c5 | Before the first plugs, an early version of the virtual world existed. People carried around handheld devices that allowed them to access it. | Donna Freitas | ||
| e0e43c1 | But the maintenance of two entirely different shelves - one real, one virtual - was confusing and exhausting. People became so addicted to looking at their tablets that they stopped going outside and even stopped talking to their real friends and loved ones. The app world save every one of this division by liberating people from their bodies and allowing them a permanent virtual existence. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 74d0eda | all the bad things that had happened to him were necessary if the intended outcome was to occur. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| b78704d | Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould | community | Jonathan Haidt | |
| 0f6e8a1 | Stephen Jay Gould | V.S. Ramachandran | ||
| 51b7dfc | We don't have to become science popularizers like Stephen Jay Gould or Carl Sagan, we just have to become better storytellers. Doing so will make us more effective with each other, with our professional translators (science journalists like Kolbert), with policy makers, and with the public. | Joshua Schimel | ||
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Por que iba a ser nuestra maldad el bagaje de un pasado simiesco, y nuestra bondad, exclusivamente humana? ?Por que no hemos de buscar la continuidad con otros animales tambien para nuestros atributos < |
Christopher Ryan | ||
| c7dd97b | The basic principles of evolutionary biology would seem to dictate that any natural phenomenon as prominent in our lives as our experience of consciousness must necessarily have some discernible and quantifiable effect in order for it to exist, and to persist, in nature at all. It must, in other words, confer some selective advantage. And that raises an obvious question: What possible selective advantage could consciousness offer if it is o.. | Jeffrey M. Schwartz | ||
| d9a73b0 | This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages. | evolution evolutionism time | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| b9ceee5 | In 1987, Hutton's eighteenth-century discovery was acclaimed by the eminent science writer, Stephen Jay Gould. In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, he wrote of Hutton: 'He burst the boundaries of time, thereby establishing geology's most distinctive and transforming contribution to human thought - Deep Time.'35 The discovery, said Gould, imposed a 'great temporal limitation' upon human importance: 'the notion of an almost incomprehensible immensi.. | Brenda Maddox | ||
| ff8ffbc | Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man is both amusing and horrifying when it recounts how nineteenth century anthropologists pursued craniometry | Howard Margolis | ||
| 5cd3136 | I offer an introduction to some of the main writings and debates in the anthology The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology, edited by Keith M. Parsons (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003). Stephen Jay Gould's views | Howard Margolis | ||
| 14cd65d | History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records-- | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 19b8f03 | Among the writers of science for the general public, some, like Carl Sagan, could compose beautiful, resonant prose that conveyed the wonder and majesty of the cosmos. Others, like Stephen Jay Gould, produced writings that were masterpieces of the essayist's art. But nobody could match Isaac Asimov in sheer expository skill. Asimov had the very rare, perhaps unique, ability to take the most difficult ideas of science and present them so cle.. | Howard Margolis | ||
| 3f70cbd | Stephen Jay Gould offered this practical compromise: "In science, 'fact' can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."16" The key phrase is provisional assent. We can strive for objectivity; we cannot reach the shores of dispassionate observation. The problem is that to play according to the rules of scientific method, we must concede the possibility that we cannot know if one day contra.. | Robert A. Burton | ||
| 93697c7 | Why is it that we say we see something distinctive in these lives and not, say, in a politician hoping for our vote, or a lawyer doing her job, or even a soldier risking his life for the sake of his country? Because the scientists and philosophers are to this extent right, that people generally act on the basis of rational self-interest. Consciously or otherwise, we seek to hand on our genes to the next generation. Individually and as group.. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| b9ead14 | A civilisation that had space for science but not religion might achieve technological prowess. But it would not respect people in their specificity and particularity. It would quickly become inhuman and inhumane. Think of the French Revolution, Stalinist Russia and Communist China, and you need no further proof. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 95d7cea | throughout the contemporary world, the more religious the group the higher its birth rate, and we see the power of religion to sustain community over time. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| d1698c3 | Although we looked hard at all the available data and case studies back to early Greece and India, we still have not been able to identify a single case of any non-religious population retaining more than two births per woman for just a century. Wherever religious communities dissolved, demographic decline followed suit. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| b407d55 | Everything I have learned about faith in a lifetime tells me that the science of creation - cosmology - wondrous though it is, takes second place to the sheer wonder that God could take this risk of creating a creature with the freedom to disobey him and wreck his world. There is no faith humans can have in God equal to the faith God must have had in humankind to place us here as guardians of the vastness and splendour of the universe. We e.. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 62a6dd6 | First, in the seventeenth century, came the secularisation of knowledge in the form of science and philosophy. Then in the eighteenth century came the secularisation of power by way of the American and French Revolutions and the separation - radical in France, less doctrinaire in the United States - of church and state. In the nineteenth century came the secularisation of culture as art galleries and museums were seen as alternatives to chu.. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| c0a7a10 | Homo sapiens, discovering God singular and alone, discovered the human being singular and alone. There is no greater dignity than that | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| e8b9cdc | Religion was the robe of sanctity worn to mask the naked pursuit of power. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 9c2b1ad | Dualism, as we have noted, comes in many forms: between mind and body, in-group and out-group, and between the higher and lower instincts between which we must constantly choose. It may be that binary opposition is one of the fundamental ways in which we understand the world. But divide humanity into absolute categories of good and evil, in which all the good is on one side and all the evil on the other, and you will see your own side as go.. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| faf3aca | Faith is about seeing the miraculous in the everyday, not about waiting every day for the miraculous. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 1282716 | If God created the world, then his existence must be compatible with the world. If he created human intelligence, his existence must not be an insult to the intelligence. If the greatest gift he gave humanity was freedom, then religion could not establish itself by coercion. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 529016f | our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 50769a6 | the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 40de3da | It was Machiavelli, not Moses or Mohammed, who said it is better to be feared than to be loved: the creed of the terrorist and the suicide bomber. It was Nietzsche, the man who first wrote the words 'God is dead', whose ethic was the will to power. To invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege. It is a kind of blasphemy. It is to take God's name in vain. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| b55fb27 | Douglas Mock has assembled the animal behavioural evidence in More than Kin and Less than Kind.6 In the Galapagos Islands young fur seals attack their newborn siblings, seizing them by the throat and tossing them into the air, killing them unless the mother seal intervenes. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| da83817 | The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| 2ea4d58 | But beyond a basic minimum, the relationship between income and happiness is slight. Research bears out Maslow's analysis that the higher needs are love and belonging, esteem and self-actualisation. The most significant determinants of happiness are strong and rewarding personal relationships, a sense of belonging to a community, being valued by others and living a meaningful life. These are precisely the things in which religion specialise.. | Jonathan Sacks |