Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take the self-driving car and the smartphone and put those together and think about how to manage a smart grid because suddenly… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal… — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
