#plain

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#advantages #constraints #equal #evolutionary #explaining

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#complaining #having #hear #hear people #people

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#banish #because #believe #devote #done

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. ↗

— Tom Holt

#beautiful #beautiful girl #dying #evening #girl

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#christian #coach #faith #goodreads-author #highrtlife

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #began #confident #explain #governed

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#aspire #beings #biologists #birds #broader

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#deny #does #exist #exists #explain

I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had. ↗

— Uri Geller

#being #even #explain #ground #had