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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder…
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I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and…
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised…
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There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
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Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they…
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally…
— Ernst Mayr
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My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must…
— William Eckhardt
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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations…
— Thomas Hardy
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my…
— Brennan Manning
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