Intermediates Quotes

#1. The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. There are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Dawkins

#3. We enshrine things in memory very differently from how we experience them in real time.

Jennifer Senior

#4. One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

Robert Farrar Capon

#5. Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head
feeling and thought
meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Daniel Goleman

#6. There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

Mallory Ortberg

#7. I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

Theodore White

#8. Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?

Dan Ariely

#9. Like truth, a sword can be used for good or evil, to protect or harm. The only difference between a Jedi's lightsaber and that of a Sith is the blade color.

Kevin S. Decker

#10. Righteousness, meaning holy integrity and uprightness, is the breastplate in the armor of God that Christians are called to wear in order to counter the devil's attacks (Eph. 6:14).

J.I. Packer