“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim” MeditationConditionsClaimsIndependent Author:Shinzen Young
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.” KindArtArtistCertainClaimsIndependentIntentionWorkersTreatedWorks Of ArtCategoriesCommodityCraftsmanSkilled Workers Author:Raymond Williams
“Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.” KnowsSeemsTurnsBitsPayCompanyWonderFocusProductsClaimsIndependentProductionsAdsCigaretteBedroom Author:Joe Eszterhas
“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.” Has BeensEnoughHelpingMovingPartyThirdsClaimsIndependentBillionsMoving OnFundUpside DownSpillsThird PartiesWorld Upside DownMoving To Fast Author:Barack Obama
“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.” IfsMenInspirationalSelfSocialCreationDutyClaimsIndependentPrivilegeDependentArrogantBrutesInsperationalSelf Contained Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.” DramaClaimsIndependentCraftsPlotConstructionAfflictionIdentificationAssignmentsProtagonists Author:David Mamet