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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
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All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be…
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
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On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist…
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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
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A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
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There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual…
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and…
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores…
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According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one…
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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as…
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…
— Ernst Mayr
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of…
— Pope Pius XII
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It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel…
— Chris Hayes
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I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more…
— Chris Hayes
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The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there…
— Thomas Merton
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The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance,…
— Sarah Lewis
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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is…
— Richard Dawkins
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit,…
— James Joyce
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When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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