“I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.” ThinkingCan DoEvolutionAvailableSoftwareCan NotExceed Author:Linus Torvalds
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.” MeanCommonEvolutionSurvivalIntelligentThreatSpeciesAvailableStrongestAdaptabilityAdaptable Author:Charles Darwin
“But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.” PeopleIfsWantMindBelieveMatterStatesWould BeEvolutionEvidenceClaimsAvailableAbsenceSillyOverwhelmingState Of MindSuperfluousSilly People Author:Richard Dawkins
“When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.” HumansUseHumanityBeliefSpeakHuman BeingsEvolutionStandardsOrdinaryCapacityDetermineAvailableStoresExpertsAppropriateMy ThoughtsTestimonyUnqualified Author:Ernest Sosa
“I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.” ThinkingCan DoEvolutionAvailableSoftwareCan NotExceed Author:Linus Torvalds
“If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.” IfsMindFirstsWould BeUniverseEvolutionAmountEvidenceAvailableFavourCreationism Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.” MadeEvolutionIdealsAvailableEngineersComponentsJuryRiggedOrchids Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” MenHas BeensStatesMomentsConditionsHonestEvolutionMiracleAvailableSatisfiedHonest ManOrigin Of LifeEvolution Of LifeEvolution Of ManAnthropic PrincipleOrigin Of Man Author:Francis Crick