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I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
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Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
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It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a… — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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