“What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.” Has BeensNaturalMajorsOddBiologyMechanismDiscoveringSelectionAdaptationNatural SelectionFundamentalistEvolutionary Biology Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?” ThinkingChildrenStatesReasonFactsShowsProblemSeemsMightUnitedCitiesWonderUnited StatesStudyShareCoupleMajorsPopulationOddSmallestSan FranciscoRiceReproducing Author:Jay Leno
“In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't today realize just how different early Christianity was in that context.” MadeDifferentTodayRealizingChristianityFocusMajorsMade ItOddFeaturesBizarreDistinctiveDestroyers Author:Larry Hurtado
“It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --” LittlesFactsLanguageCasesMajorsOdd Author:Sydney J. Harris