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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not…

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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level…
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or…
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because…
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if…

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You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show. — Alison Brie
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. — David Byrne
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over… — David Finkelstein
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights,… — Thomas Jefferson
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. — Francis Crick
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. — Clement Freud
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for… — William Lloyd Garrison
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously… — Peter Thiel
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi
I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day. — Amy Smart

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