Sonny Davidson

“The sciences form a hierarchy. “Physics rests on mathematics, chemistry on physics, biology on chemistry, and, in principle, the social sciences on biology,” wrote evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers.”
― Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

“biology, with devastating effects.”2 Why the resistance? Because the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology.”
― Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

“Biology is not going to put us out of business. The new knowledge that geneticists and neuroscientists are providing, conjoined with the kinds of analyses we do best, will enable us to take giant strides in understanding how societies, polities, and economies really function. We are like physicists at the outset of the nineteenth century, who were poised at a moment in history that would produce Ampères and Faradays.”
― Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

“Shinto festivals typically revolve around one particular kami who becomes the god of honor or chief guest at that festival. Celebrations include a lot of physical events including drama performances, processions, sumo wrestling, and of course, feasting.”
― Vincent Miller, Shinto - The Way of the Gods: Introduction to the Traditional Religion of Japan