"No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance……" — Theodosius Dobzhansky
"No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful."
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
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18 Quotes by Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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