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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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Haldane

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…on this planet are six legged. If you get a hole in your screen doors you'll find out what I mean. J b s Haldane a Great British Biologist and mathematician. He was once asked if you admitted a mind behind evolution what would you say is its…

10:25

…know how dumb the average guy is. Well mathematically by definition half of them are even dumber than that. J b s Haldane, the Great British Biologist, was once asked if you admitted a mind behind evolution. What is the principal characteristic of that…

10:36

…British Biologist, was once asked if you admitted a mind behind evolution. What is the principal characteristic of that mind? And Haldane answered at once: an inordinate fondness for beetles. And indeed there are not any more beetles on this planet than…

30:30

…on this planet are six legged. If you get a hole in your screen doors you'll find out what I mean. J b s Haldane, the Great British Biologist and mathematician. He was once asked if you admitted a mind behind evolution. What would you say is its…

1:00:10

…years because they were guided chiefly by the first two circuits. Most species become extinct. The beetles have outlived everybody. When Haldane the biologist was asked if you admitted a mind behind evolution which he as an agnostic was not inclined to…

2:14

…something to argue about. Human chauvinism is so pervasive we hardly notice it like fish hardly notice the water. J b s Haldane the Great British Biologist, was once asked if he admitted there was a mind behind evolution, something he was much inclined to…

13:34

…one gene pool dominating a country you still have a really fanatical patriotism. It's patriotism it's loyalty to the gene pool. As Haldane said, evolution has programmed us so that we'll die for a brother and risk our life for a cousin and beyond that,…