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162 quotes by 152 authors

On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in… — F. David Peat
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great… — David F. Houston
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. — Lars Leksell
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment… — E. O. Wilson
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological… — Nick Bostrom
I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to… — Dick Fosbury
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can… — Cary Fowler
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. — Ian Tattersall
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing… — Jan Morris
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is â€œno exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… — Walter Scott
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,… — Antoine Lavoisier
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it… — Solomon Caesar Malan
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. — J. E. B. Stuart
Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at… — Sheldon Vanauken
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted… — Harvey V. Fineberg

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