#ingenio

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. ↗

— Richard Owen

#certain #chain #contributes #darwin #even

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#being #human #human being #ingenious #plumbing

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#ingenious #man #plumbing #portable

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#born #carried #chance #few #foreign

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#evolution #humor #ingenious-statements #random-chance #humor

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. ↗

— James Joyce

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