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“An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)”
“People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.”
“Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”
“The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.”
“Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.”
“Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.”
“Make mankind your dwelling place.”
“Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.”
“It is high time that we grew up and left the Garden. We are indeed Eden’s children, yet it is time to place Genesis alongside the geocentric myth in the basket of stories that once, in a world of i...”
“Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result...”
“If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…”
“Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that ‘It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to improve a basically disastrous design.”
“With all respect to your religion or world-view — thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes — the keyword is "thank" — just have some gratitude and be thankful.”
“If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.”
“When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health?”
“A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be, like electron or...”
“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.”
“For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.”
“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks,evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality, and meaning that they just can’t accept it...”
