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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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If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your…
— Sun Tzu
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It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be…
— Sun Tzu
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long…
— Bertrand Russell
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality…
— Alan Cohen
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...
— Richard Dawkins
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God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when…
— John Cassian
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To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes
— Fritz Kunkel
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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you…
— Ayn Rand
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I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow…
— Edward Abbey
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It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than…
— Ian Fleming
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Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly…
— Michael Strong
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