Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
I would probably buy the iPhone5 if it kept me from drunk dialing my exes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just… — Storm Saulter Copy Share Image
The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of… — Francis Alys Copy Share Image
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth,… — David Drake Copy Share Image
