#central

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#central #certainty #concerned #culture #death

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#administration #also #answers #central #clinic

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#because #becoming #central #climate #convinced

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #central #evidence #general #home

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#bush #central #comedy #comedy central #did

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#benefits #central #door #economy #long

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#among #central #choosing #conduct #courses