#iona

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

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#dream #geographic #national #national geographic #photographer

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. ↗

— Billy Graham

#according #adventure #dictionary #excitement #extremely

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#arabian #country #i #kill #rational

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist." (Voltaire) ↗

— Elizabeth Kales

#inspirational

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#better #dark #deep #emotional #film

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#immediate #immediately #move #other #propose

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #impresario #judging #professional #talking

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. ↗

— Celia Green

#determined #done #fairly #fashionable #most

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love