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In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable. ↗

— Charles Wheelan

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We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations. ↗

— Bryan Sykes

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The definition of an expert: x is an unknown quantity spurt is a drip under pressure ↗

— Anonymous or Vincent Bellini

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يا أمة اقرأ اقرئي لتتعلمي ولتعملي وإلا أحاط بك اجهل فأذلك أعداؤك وأعداء الله والقرآن يقول ( ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمؤمنين ) فكيف تكون العزة للجاهلين ؟! ↗

— د. أحمد البراء الأميري

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A person who promises and does not fulfill his promise is similar to an egg that never hatches. ↗

— Hadas Moosazadeh

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Broken code and broken heart are hard to repair..... ↗

— Akshay Dubey

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An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

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It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Proof' is the hallmark of religion. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#peer-review #proof #religion #science #theory

I am absolutely convinced of the lack of true scientific evidence in favour of Darwinian dogma. Nobody in the biological sciences, medicine included, needs Darwinism at all. Darwinism is certainly needed, however, in order to pose as a philosopher, since it is primarily a worldview. And an awful one, as George Bernard Shaw used to say. ↗

— Raul O. Leguizamon

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