evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we see the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The brain is an organ of aggression, and there are many roads to this Rome of imagined conquests — so many that mental disorders,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
![“[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.” quote by Natalie Angier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/901/natalie-angier-21271_eggs_on-women-we-are-all-yeses-we-are-worthy_272801.jpg)
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