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Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.


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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.



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Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.



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Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.



Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.



The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.



If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.



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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.



An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.





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