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The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried


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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.



Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.



Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.



It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.



I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.



Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.





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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.



All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.



If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.



Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.



He missed his imagined future.

He missed his imagined future.



We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.



Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

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I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.



The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

The one governmental agency that has no ambition.




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