Brian Boyd Quotes
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.
Brian Boyd
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
B. F. Skinner
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
Henry Ward Beecher
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
Heraclitus
People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.
George Clooney
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper
I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my materials, and then expand into confiscating other people's materials, and then go after Gibson Guitars and so many other different people... they can go after you, they can go after everybody, we could all be "terrorists." That's really the big concern.
Bernard von NotHaus
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion
Richard Feynman
There’s no shooting with the law of probabilities, otherwise you should just be a filmmaker and just point the camera and trigger. That’s called making film. If you’re a photographer, it’s about waiting for those decisive and clear moments.
Jonathan Mannion
Maybe, but if you look at Sunset Boulevard, it's not so far away. Even Citizen Kane is not so far away. So I think that I know it's not so far away.
Maximilian Schell
There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.
Brian Boyd