#ions

In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike "harder" scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism #darwinist-confessions

Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationships #true-love #experience

You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#character #choices #truth #experience

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. ↗

— John McCarthy

#distinctions #hard #make #philosophy

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ↗

— Anais Nin

#explanation #love #no reason #reason #seek

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? ↗

— George Orwell

#writing #questions

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #madness #nations #parties

You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#abusive-relationships #relationship-quotes #relationships #wisdom-quotes #wrong-relationships

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. ↗

— George Eliot

#feelings #value #life

What if people and their lives and their productions become more beautiful than words can describe because they believe in something bigger than themselves? Is the most important question really whether what they believe is true? Isn't it more important that they are real? Things can be real without being true. ↗

— Christine Lim

#faith #questions #religion #beauty