Antony Flew Quotes
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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I'm going through an evolution. I'm completely cleaning out my closet. I'm purging, because I saw that show 'Hoarders.' I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I'm going, 'Why do I hold on to this?'
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The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.
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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.
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Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
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I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.
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I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
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Typography is what language looks like.
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It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.
