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Adapted Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy…
- Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our…
- 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…
- Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our…
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- Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — Samuel Butler
- There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael
- Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer
- During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison
- The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can… — Carl von Clausewitz
- A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti
- In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols… — John B. S. Haldane
- [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes
- The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net… — Thomas Kuhn
- Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith
- Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Unknown Author
- Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less,… — Robert Stawell Ball