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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…
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The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
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It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level…
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I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
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It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or…
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The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
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The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…
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To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…
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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…
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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
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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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No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you…
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The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What…
— Jack Handey
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Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then…
— Suzy Kassem
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Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of…
— Gore Vidal
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It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
— Robert Breault
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If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so…
— Barbara Steele
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I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I…
— Mira Sorvino
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Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity…
— George Gilder
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups…
— Chuck D
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Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
— Alicia Keys
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