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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#biologists #essence #evolutionary #had #i

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#ideas #lie #minds #only #reach

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#fights #friends #go #going #good

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#ideas #lie #minds #only #reach

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#indifferent #life #men #necessary #nothing

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. ↗

— Curt Gowdy

#good #only #performance #yesterday

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #books #changed #clip #faster

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. ↗

— Billy Graham

#appreciates #character #children #christian #fully