E. O. Wilson Quotes
Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
E. O. Wilson
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
Rachel Nichols
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
Youssou N'Dour
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
Yochai Benkler
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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
Bat for Lashes
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
Ian Hacking
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
Napoleon Hill
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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In both quantum theory and general relativity, we encounter predictions of physically sensible quantities becoming infinite. This is likely the way that nature punishes impudent theorists who dare to break her unity. ...If infinities are signs of missing unification, a unified theory will have none. It will be what we call a finite theory.
Lee Smolin
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Time flies when you are anxious!
Maria Bamford
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.
Ben Watt
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This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
E. O. Wilson
