“This is the contrary of the Darwin that we mainly receive from the Darwinists. The survival of the fittest is supposed to represent the conflict of sovereign individuals, among which the strongest wins and so gets to go on to… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share
“Patience is the mother of joy. It is through patience that we can endure each others company long enough to fall in love, through patience that we can cooperate in a task, through patience that we can go from abysmally bad to almost all right, through patience that we can restrain ourselves from wasting our lives in anger and disappointment.… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share
“This is the contrary of the Darwin that we mainly receive from the Darwinists. The survival of the fittest is supposed to represent the conflict of sovereign individuals, among which the strongest wins and so gets to go on to the next round of the conflict. But in Darwin's day--at least when he was writing 'The Voyage of the Beagle'--'fittest'… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share
“We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. 'It must be up there somewhere on the… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share Image
“Compare the air to a forest. When forest fires occur regularly, there is less fuel for any one fire, so the burns don't become… — William Bryant Logan Copy Share Image
