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- Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
- Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;…
- ...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is…
- One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values…
- Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if…
- One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,…
- Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of…
- Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at…
- Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman