Michael Behe Quotes
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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For kids it's natural to be competitive.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.
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If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.
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the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
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I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
