"The living world is not a single array...……" — Theodosius Dobzhansky
"The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades."
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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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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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More Array Quotes
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
— Larry Wall
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or…
— Judy Chicago
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
— Howard Gardner
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big…
— E. O. Wilson
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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of…
— Sun Tzu
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the…
— Dean Koontz
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