Proximate Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary)… — Ernst Mayr
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to… — Pope Pius XII
It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about… — Chris Hayes
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and,… — Chris Hayes
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no… — Thomas Merton
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does… — Gilbert N. Lewis
A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate… — Sarah Lewis
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a… — Richard Dawkins
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. — Muhammad Iqbal
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or RÃ©aumur:… — James Joyce
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or… — Sonia Sotomayor

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