Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever … - George Wald

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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

George Wald

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

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We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.

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[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation. ] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once. . . . The time. . . is of the order of two billion years. . . . Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

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The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

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