#wit

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

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#day #days #finishing #i #layoff

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#arctic #circle #considerable #far #gulf

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#creative #disagree #i #i think #in other words

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#debate #debating #question #settle #settling

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#imagination #learning #who #wings #without

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#enigma #material #material world #spiritual #spiritual world

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#imagination #learning #who #wings #without

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. ↗

— James Joyce

#artist #behind #beyond #creation #existence