Teju Cole Quotes
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
Cole, Teju. Interview by Anna Aslanyan. The White Review, no. 5, 2012.
There are a few modern progressive conservatives who believe this point of view, but most generally resist change.
A theater arts program that operated nationally under the WPA.
Later scientist Stephen J. Gould developed the idea that even evolution was not a process of slow gradualism, but generally moved in spurts. Land’s distinction between human beings and other animals, may be the ONLY unique distinction, now that language, creativity, use of tools, and abstract thinking have been demonstrated in other species.
Most major new scientific findings are conceptually different from what the current generation of scientists have learned and been used to. It takes some time for reflection and the death of the most recalcitrant scientists. For the new generation of scientists there is no problem. Today, even college students have little trouble thinking in the framework of Einstein’s Relativity, while that was a huge problem for most when Einstein fist published at the beginning of the 20th century.
Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.
