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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler
Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past,… — Rajneesh
It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species. — Richard Goldschmidt
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Unknown Author
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of… — Paulo Coelho
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick

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