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“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

tags: evolution, human, intelligence, polymath, polymaths

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“(1998)”
― Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons

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“Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

tags: evolution, intelligence, science

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“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

tags: evolution, future, ideas, intelligence

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“If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must
consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

tags: animal-communication, animal-intelligence, animal-rights

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