"Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least……" — Theodosius Dobzhansky
"Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest."
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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18 Quotes by Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel…
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Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would…
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
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The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an…
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Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
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No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices…
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The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
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Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it…
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An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into…
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Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science…
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures…
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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