#lance

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#biology #id #intelligent-design #optimisation #optimization

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#admit #balance #both #enriches #i

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well. ↗

— Sandy Fussell

#disability #life #life

Don't confuse having a career with having a life. ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#career #life #life

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#columns #confused #emit #familiar #forests

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#balanced #bed #during #early #eight

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#man #paid #per #perhaps #piece

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#across #also #balance #because #characters