529 quotes found
“We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.”
“Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years time.”
“Whats dangerous is not to evolve.”
“The little town of Dayton - not far from where Katz and I now sat, as it happened - was the scene of the famous Scopes trial in 1925, when the state prosecuted a schoolteacher named John Thomas Sco...”
“There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.”
“The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,”
“The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man therefore increase your necessity.”
“If a functional gene becomes a pseudogene, its product will no longer be available to the biochemical pathways in which it formerly participated. The transformation of a gene to a pseudogene will n...”
“You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.”
“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.”
“George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as grossly immoral. Having no foresight or compassion, natural selection can honestly be described as a process for ...”
“Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.”
“So, if someone like Richard Dawkins indignantly protests that his passion about these sorts of things -- the passion that drives the "God Delusion" -- should not be taken as a religious passion, I ...”
“The story of evolution is more dramatic, more compelling, more intricate than any creation myth. Yet like any creation myth, it is a tale of transformations, of sudden and spectacular changes, erup...”
“Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside”
“Genetically we're just the third species of chimp, a physically weak but social animal. It was in our interests to communicate complex ideas so we could cooperate to hunt big, dangerous prey animal...”
“Darwin struggled for a very long time with the problem of evolution being wrong but finally came up with the answer: it's all the fault of the females. . . The females aren't crazy at all. If a fem...”
“ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).”
“An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)”
“For it is a fact that men must ejaculate in order to reproduce (although science may soon remove this necessity.) Women, on the other hand, do not need to achieve orgasm to reproduce. Men, therefor...”
