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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a1b8f71 | To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one. | spirituality | Donna Freitas | |
| 37c4f45 | Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication? | Donna Freitas | ||
| 92bb2aa | In the desert we say Make haste slowly. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 4d62060 | Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 88b192a | In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven aan het oudere en tegengestelde standpunt: we zien variatie nog steeds als een massa onlogische toevalligheden, die hoofdzakelijk van waarde is omdat zo'n spreiding te gebruiken is voor de berekening van een gemiddelde, hetgeen we dan beschouwen als iets wat een essentie nog.. | evolutie plato variatie | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| 2101370 | The Tale of Human Evolution The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theory of evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim holds that modern man evolved from ape-like creatures. During this alleged evolutionary process, which is supposed to have started 4-5 million years ago, some "transitional forms" between modern man and his ancestors are supposed to have existed. According to this completely imaginar.. | Harun Yahya | ||
| 9b25f4e | Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 7db3858 | Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not like the men who served as a cannon fodder in World War I, dug into the trenches of a senseless and apparently interminable conflict, while lobbing bullets and canisters of poison gas at a supposed enemy, who, like any soldier, just wanted to get off the battlefield and on with a potentially productive and.. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 8d7e27c | But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd? | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 65e39e8 | The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonder.. | burgess-shale evolution history life opabinia wonderful-life | Stephen Jay Gould | |
| d02113a | Stephen Jay Gould has told us that evolution is geared not toward progressive "fitness" but toward simply filling available ecological niches." -- | John McWhorter | ||
| f04d4b3 | The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our text- books have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. Yet Darwin was so wedded to gradualism that he wagered his entire theory on a denial of this literal record: Darwin's argument still persists as the favored e.. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| 651b91c | There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study into a scientific parlor game. But imaginative reconstructions of how things might have evolved are not science; they are stories. Stephen Jay Gould satirized them as 'Just-So Stories,' after Kipling's eponymous book that gave delightful but fanciful explanations for various traits of.. | Jerry A. Coyne | ||
| 02f3dbe | The person carrying me came to a halt and spoke. 'Take good care of her. I'll see you in two days.' It was the voice of Grimalkin. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| a9fc04c | Be less than what you are so that you can become more." -- Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice" | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 0493024 | then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone. | dont-read-pg-362 strange | Joseph Delaney | |
| 2916f79 | Did you finish the key?" I asked him." | Joseph Delaney | ||
| e542061 | Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 873d44b | We depend on neither man nor beast to get us where we need to go. If you rely on your own two good legs, then they won't let you down. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| d0d3c76 | The truth was that we all faced death here. For my part I was somewhat fatalistic - if it happened, then so be it. But I wanted to survive. The future - even without Alice - called to me, and I didn't want that taken away. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| ab5ce42 | What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked. 'East,' she replied promptly. 'How do you know that?' 'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 2147d61 | terrorism is nothing more than a form of psychological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| d11bfb8 | Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.' Creationists gleefully quote this sentence again and aga.. | creationism evolution irreducible-complexity | Richard Dawkins | |
| 98dfa4d | Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.' Darwin could find no such case, and nor has anybody since Darwin's time, despite strenuous, indeed desperate, efforts. Many candidates for this holy grail of creationism have been proposed. None ha.. | creationism evolution irreducible-complexity | Richard Dawkins | |
| 270a1cb | It was hard to see where all this could possibly go when it melted. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a100a3a | a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e7ba83f | Although leaves remained on the beeches and the sunshine was warm, there was a sense of growing emptiness over the wide space of the down. The flowers were sparser. Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal. But most of the plants still to be seen were in seed. Along the edge of the wood a sheet of wild clematis showed like a patch of smoke, .. | winter | Richard Adams | |
| 7961a79 | How mighty are the ways of God! You are slow to anger and swift to love. Your heart bleeds forgiveness, and Your hand works mighty signs for all to see. | Adam Houge | ||
| 83b9f7b | I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c684050 | You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes--possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| f787aee | But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 4b4f4c0 | She did not look like an orphan," said the wife of the Oriel don, subsequently, on the way home. The criticism was a just one. ... Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds. Her dark hair was not even strained back from her forehead and behind her ears, as an orphan's should be. Parted somewhere at the side, it fell in an avalanche of curls upon one eyebrow. Fr.. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 31908d3 | If a man carry his sense of proportion far enough, lo! he is back at the point from which he started. He knows that eternity, as conceived by him, is but an instant in eternity, and infinity but a speck in infinity. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 3951f34 | Kanenas pou den ekhei khasei te mataiodoxia tou den mporei na theorethei oti ekhei apotukhei teleios. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 5efa66c | Because I was a pedant. I tried to ignore you, as pedants always do try to ignore any fact they cannot fit into their pet system. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 1e03fe5 | Not for an instant did he flinch from the mere fact of dying to-day...To die 'untimely,' as men called it, was the timeliest of deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness. What perfection could he, Dorset, achieve beyond what was already his? Future years could but stale, if not actually mar, that perfection. Yes, it was lucky to perish leaving much to the imagination of posterity. Dear posterity was of a sentimental, not a realis.. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| adedd5d | Here was he, going to die for her; and here was she, blaming him for a breach of manners. Decidedly, the slave had the whip-hand. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 253d101 | You wondered even when you heard that he was wont at Oxford to make without help his toilet of every day. Well, the true dandy is always capable of such high independence. He is craftsman as well as artist. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| cd753ec | Oh," every stair creaked faintly, "I ought to have been marble!" | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 8fabee9 | You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| fbeb42c | Yet often you talk as though you had read rather much. Your way of speech has what is called 'the literary flavour'. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 61172fe | Explain yourself!" he commanded. "Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman?" "I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has a right to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life." (page 90)" | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 0768b65 | What is fear, but courage's shadow? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 373ace3 | A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality. | Susan Minot |