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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 was soon a…

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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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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the… — Kate Chopin
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the… — Lin Yutang
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. — Dennis Rodman
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for… — George Gaylord Simpson
In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to… — Matt LeBlanc
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing,… — Paul Stamets
If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a… — Roy Peter Clark
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and… — Khaled Hosseini
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in… — Anna Godbersen
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that… — Connie Willis
I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become… — Deb Caletti
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. — Daniel Handler

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