Michael Behe Quotes

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

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• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
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  • Always
  • Nervous

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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  • Need
  • Made

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Tourism

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
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  • Tax
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• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
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• Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Reason
  • Brain

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
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  • Fact

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Word
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• The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

  

  Anthony Rapp
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• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Face

• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  

  Lou Holtz
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  • Certain

• That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

  

  Zeno of Citium
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• There's really quite a beautiful marriage between Milady's ingenuity and D'Artagnan's immaturity. When they first meet, she's trying to frame him. She's using him for a certain reason. They haven't just met by coincidence. She's singled him out for a reason. She knows that she can almost make D'Artagnan do what she wants to, and that's when D'Artagnan's immaturity comes out.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Trying
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• The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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• The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Experience
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• I’ve been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn’t anyone else in my life, and the reason … is you.

  

  Julie James
  • Love
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  • Beginning

• Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • People
  • Different
  • Running

• My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course.

  

  Ian Bogost
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  • Desire
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• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • Light
  • Movies
  • Changed

• I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

  

  Michael Behe
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