If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and... sons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until w...e can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them bo...th opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and bi...ology a third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family ta...kes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving t...oward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equ...ilibrium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexuality is animal; it is a natural function, whereas eroticism develops within society. The former belongs to the realm of biolo...gy, the latter to that of culture. Its essence is the imaginary: eroticism is a metaphor of sexuality. There is a dividing line between eroticism and sexuality--the word like. Eroticism is a representation, a ceremony of transfiguration: men and women make love like lions, eagles, doves, or praying mantises; neither lions nor praying mantises make love like human beings. We humans see ourselves in animals; animals do not see themselves in humans. By contemplating itself, humanity changes itself and changes sexuality. Eroticism is not brute sex but sex transfigured by the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describe...s a bump on the bump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »