Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.Stephen Jay Gould
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
Magdi Yacoub -
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
Kara DioGuardi -
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Music was sort of my thing at first.
Jacob Batalon -
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin -
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
Taylor Sheridan
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Samantha Power -
In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
Karen DeCrow -
I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia -
What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
Patrick Ewing -
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
Alan Parsons
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The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
Elizabeth Berkley -
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
William James -
We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.
Andrea Phillips -
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
Bill Vaughan -
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould