Phylogenies Quotes

#1. Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

Norman Macbeth

#2. Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

Henny Youngman

#3. The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

Theodor W. Adorno

#4. Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#5. Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Asif Kapadia

#6. She's too powerful," Matt whispered as his life faded away.
"I'll be there to balance her," Lucas promised.

Josephine Angelini

#7. It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go. If there was a single chance at happiness with him, I was determined to seize it.

Deanna Raybourn

#8. There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Jakaya Kikwete

#9. I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#10. I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Dave Anderson

#12. There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants

Frans De Waal

#14. Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

Jimmy Carter

#15. One of the biggest gifts that you can give your daughter is to show her that you love what you do.

Maggie Wilderotter