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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three…
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It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.
— Lou Holtz
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Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is…
— Eric Idle
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Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and…
— Eddie Griffin
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they…
— Stanley Greenspan
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On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and…
— C. Rajagopalachari
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There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't…
— Daniel Wolpert
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
— Daisy Fuentes
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Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film -…
— Danny Elfman
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Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down....
— Phil Ochs
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
— Tim Hetherington
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