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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Otto Schily
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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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• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

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

  

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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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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• 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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• 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
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• I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
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• In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

  

  Margaret Keane
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• The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

  

  Chris Matthews
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• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

  

  John Chamberlain
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• Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

  

  Richard Feynman
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• When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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• You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

  

  Nancy Farmer
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• I agree that it's a macho world, metal, but it's also a very, very social world, where people are loving music in respect for one another, female or male.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
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• 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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