“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.” FormSecretRecordsTreeEvolutionEvidenceTradeExtremesDataBranchesReasonablePersistFossilsTextbooksInferenceRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And Evolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.” YearsLittlesHomeMotherLeftTermSecretGrewGrew UpYears AgoExtremesBreadDirtyHouseholdPotatoesCookiesRiceNaughtyCarbohydrates Author:Ina Garten
“How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?” MenWorldDoeMadeFallBornDealsSecretDangerousBirthAngelWingsExtremesBetrayalCompromiseCrewTranslationsFusionNewnessGuillotine Book:The Satanic Verses Source: The Satanic Verses
“Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.” ArtSecretAvailableExtremesPolarity Author:Rajneesh
“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.” MenMadeEndsSecretKnowledgeSeeingInfiniteExtremesInfinityIncapableComprehending Book:Pascal's Pensees Source: Pascal's Pensees
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.” FormSecretRecordsEvolutionTradeExtremesPersistFossilsRarityPaleontologyCreation ScienceCreation And EvolutionGradualism Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.” IfsJoyWalksSecretKnowingMysterySorrowAbsolutesExtremesDenyGhostGuiseDeep Sorrow Book:The Jaguar Hunter Source: The Jaguar Hunter
“The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.” IfsGivingTwoLyingEvilNaturalSecretRightsBalanceGoodnessOppositesExtremesRecognitionGood And EvilPairsExcessInsufficientContendingTwo Extremes Author:Dion Fortune