Elliott Sober Quotes
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
Quotes to Explore
-
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
-
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
-
Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
-
I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
-
...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.
-
We are nothing but by the law.
-
The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
-
The relations between Russia and Turkey entered into a really positive stage. I am sure that steps we both take will widen our cooperation.
-
In a well-made garden every day is new.
-
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
-
The moon is waxing. December moon. Cold Moon.
-
Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
-
I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.
-
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
-
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
-
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.
-
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
