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Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere…

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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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Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking… — Richard Branson
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for… — Bobby Jones
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and… — Meister Eckhart
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is… — Erica Jong
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. — John Dos Passos
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln

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