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“Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.”

Differences Chance Amount Accounts Mere Species Variety Habitual Origin Of Species

Book:Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

“Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!”

People Years Long Two States Jobs Universe Individual United United States Possibility Taught Europe Accounts Species Evolve Thrown Academic Gravity Selection Darwinism Mutation

Author:Ben Stein

“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”

Thinking Way Turns Culture Animal Moral Special Accounts Species Agents

Author:Daniel Dennett

“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”

“There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.”

“To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.”

Doe Soul Seems Science Order Animal Rocks Stones Accounts Plant Species Productions Seeds Senses Reproduction Geology Reproducing

Book:Book of Minerals

Source: Book of Minerals

“Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.”

Looks Accounts Species

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so." "It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.”

Knows Wells May Mean Light Eye Girl Lines Brain Half Know How Stupid Ought Amount Balance Normal Accounts Species Bees Her Eyes Maintaining Provision Allowance Blokes

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.”

Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements

“I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.”

Knows Ends Science Universe Figures Limits Accounts Species Faculty

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion.”

Knows Seems Science Perfect Numbers Knowledge Objects Illusion Accounts Mere Species Bounds Abstract Quantity Demonstration Sophistry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.”

Earth Science Individual Possibility Accounts Species Surface Conclusion Immortal Extinction Escaping Vicissitudes

Book:Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology

Source: Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”

Self Science Process Moral Morality Prove Ethics Accounts Species Superiors Combination Destroying Inferiors Unstable

Book:Voices from the Sky

Source: Voices from the Sky

“When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”

Way Giving Asks Given Answers Clear Students Evolution Accounts Species Acceptable Agnosticism Origin Of Species

Author:William Bateson