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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. ↗

— Ian Williams

#cats #cow #filming #get #go

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#being #bulk #doormat #find #i

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#been #broken #could #good #good song

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#been #boyfriend #broke #i #just

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. ↗

— Kit Williams

#built #career #center #clock #clocks

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #before #chariot #different #different people

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. ↗

— Kit Williams

#fairy #fairy tale #got #had #how

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. ↗

— Kit Williams

#book #character #divided #fairy #fairy tale

The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south. ↗

— Kit Williams

#arm #between #cart #figure #hand