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Inertia is nearly as strong as evolution, and people who talk about progress have no idea of it.

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  1. Irving Finkel

    Assyriologist at the British Museum

    But actually, that argument is utterly, utterly fallacious, because the process of evolution is stymied left, right, and center by inertia. Inertia is nearly as strong as evolution, and this is something that the people who talk about progress and ideas have no idea about.

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