All Behavior Involves Conscious Or Unconscious Selection

Human Knowledge Has Been Changing From The Word Go And People In Certain Respects Behave More Rationally Than They Did When They Didn't Have It. They Spend Less Time Doing Rain Dances And More Time Seeding Clouds.

Anything That Gives Us New Knowledge Gives Us An Opportunity To Be More Rational.

By 1985, Machines Will Be Capable Of Doing Any Work Man Can Do.

Assuming That A Tax Increase Is Necessary, It Is Clearly Preferable To Impose The Additional Cost On Land By Increasing The Land Tax, Rather Than To Increase The Wage Tax - The Two Alternatives Open To The City (of Pittsburgh). It Is The Use And Occupancy Of Property That Creates The Need For The Municipal Services That Appear As The Largest Item In The Budget - Fire And Police Protection, Waste Removal, And Public Works. The Average Increase In Tax Bills Of City Residents Will Be About Twice As Great With Wage Tax Increase Than With A Land Tax Increase.

The Simplest Scheme Of Evolution Is One That Depends On Two Processes; A Generator And A Test. The Task Of The Generator Is To Produce Variety, New Forms That Have Not Existed Previously, Whereas The Task Of The Test Is To Cull Out The Newly Generated Forms So That Only Those That Are Well Fitted To The Environment Will Survive.