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“Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts should have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but ...”
“Evolution is true, but does that make it right?”
“If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.”
“The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried”
“What we can imagine as plausible is a narrow band in the middle of a much broader spectrum of what is actually possible. [O]ur eyes are built to cope with a narrow band of electromagnetic frequenci...”
“He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.”
“...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in ev...”
“[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine as plausible. Let's look at this matter of what we think is plausible. What we can imagine as pla...”
“People talk about service, effort, love, knowledge. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.”
“The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space...”
“Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”
“The(re is no) End”
“Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.”
“The Sufis have said: The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.”
“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.”
“To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkeyand therefore did not become one of our ancestors.”
“I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important. [In: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library....”
“The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural ...”
“Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alon...”
“Over and over again in the study of the history of life it appears that what can happen does happen. There is little suggestion that what occurs must occur, that it was fated or that it follows som...”
