Theory Of Descent Quotes

#1. For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name of the first is the theory of descent with modification. Some call it the fact of evolution, and some call it the doctrine of evolution.

Lee Spetner

#3. Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.

Rand Paul

#4. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.

Stefan Emunds

#5. I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

Nick Offerman

#6. There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like ... you know, you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cobbett

#8. It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

Andrew Niccol

#9. Where did you run today? Now there's a question you don't often hear.

Joe Henderson

#10. As Schopenhauer noted a hundred and fifty years ago, 'It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

Andy Miller

#11. I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man.

A.E. Samaan

#12. If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.

Benny Bellamacina

#13. And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

John F. Kerry

#14. Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

Chris Raschka

#15. The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

Gil Gerard

#16. Anyone who writes about Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

Ernst Mayr

#17. You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Casey Stengel

#18. I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Charles Darwin

#19. Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Ameen Rihani