#evolution

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

#adaptation #been #biology #centrality #discovering

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#does #eastern #eastern europe #europe #fact

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#retrospect #revolutions #see #something #you

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#always #charming #classes #died #evolution

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#oppressed #revolution

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ↗