Dobzhansky Quotes

#1. Seek simplicity, but distrust it," Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. Dobzhansky

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#3. You got me. As soon as I saw your prowess with the floor buffer, I was yours.

Eileen Cook

#4. No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#5. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or plain bigotry.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#6. The grace is not about forgetting, but knowing you can start anew.

Ana Tejano

#7. No known human group ... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#8. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Barack Obama

#9. There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Charles Fillmore

#10. I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#11. If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.

Billy Bob Thornton

#12. Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts
some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#13. Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#14. Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.

Meg White

#15. The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Kailash Satyarthi

#16. Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

Tedd Tripp

#17. The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#18. Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

Mel Tillis

#19. Sometimes we have to live even when we have lost everything.

M.B. Mohan

#20. The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
being from having one.

Irwin Edman

#21. Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#22. Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#23. Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#24. The living world is not a single array ... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#25. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#26. To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Alistair Cooke

#27. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Criss Jami

#28. There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#29. An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#30. Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#31. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

Janet Morris