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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.


Haldan Keffer Hartline


#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.


Gregory Bateson


#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.


Arthur Erickson


#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.


Arthur Erickson


#aspects #bankers #cannot #concerned #culture

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.


Johan Huizinga


#culture #history #human #human culture #novel

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.


William Irwin Thompson


#cultural #culture #enough #evolution #first

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.


Richard Dawkins


#environment #exists #form #god #high

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.


Christopher Dawson


#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.


E. O. Wilson


#activity #along #been #being #could

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.


Erich Fromm


#condition #culture #human #human culture #man






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