Reasoning Quotes - Page 33

• I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L.Berman, 2000.

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Technique, Tools

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• Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Dream, Ontology, Today

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• The will of man is by his reason swayed.

  Izaak Walton

  Math, Men, Logic

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