An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a … - Theodosius Dobzhansky

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The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

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The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

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Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology. Only if symbols are construed to mean what they are not intended to mean can there arise imaginary, insoluble conflicts. . . . the blunder leads to blasphemy: the Creator is accused of systematic deceitfulness.

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The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.

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The living world is not a single array. . . connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

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He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

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I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and. . . was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.

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John Cleese

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

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Thomas Koner

I would almost say that in our solo activities there is an overarching line of thought that is Porter Ricks itself. Our solo work delivers the details. So occasionally we have to go back to our corners and study and research these details to be able to bring it back into the Porter Ricks project, and into the dialogue.

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Thomas Reid

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages. . . in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

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