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• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.
  Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell....
• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.
  Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell....
• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we could not.
  -- W. A. Clousto...
• If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.