Elliott Sober Quotes
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
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My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
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I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
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How one encounters reality is a choice.
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Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.
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Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
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What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
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The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.
