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- It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear…
- The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.
- Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving…
- Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state…
- Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.
- Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly…
- Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
- He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle