Eric Lander Quotes

Evolution is a way of understanding the world that continues to hold up day after day to scientific tests.

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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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • End
  • Tests
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Being
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Evolution

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Magic

• Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Evolution

• 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?'

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Shopping
  • Evolution
  • Cleaning

• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  

  Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Evolution
  • Principle
  • Dogma

• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Help

• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • True
  • Value
  • Judging

• The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Evolution

• Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Energy

• The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Universe
  • Evolution
  • Assumption

• I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God

  

  Pythagoras
  • Life
  • Law
  • Evolution

• Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.

  

  Berkeley Rice
  • People
  • Great Things
  • Visionary

• Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.

  

  Joanne Rowling

• I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Same

• I worry about leaders in complex situations who don't have enough experience, who are just going with their intuition and not monitoring it, not thinking about it.

  

  Gary A. Klein
  • Thinking
  • Situation
  • Intuition

• I met her at a concert in Toronto and we immediately became very close and the working relationship blossomed like a flower. She didn’t tell me she could sing at first as she was still developing her style, she has come a long way since then and I am very proud to have been a small part of what she is doing today.

  

  Roger O'Donnell The Cure
  • Relationship
  • Meet
  • Toronto

• Evolution is a way of understanding the world that continues to hold up day after day to scientific tests.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Evolution
  • Tests
  • Hold Up