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But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their...

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They...

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his {lion} breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence...

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly...

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves...

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

I went to a charnel ground for the practice of Chod a few dozen times in India and in Nepal. Several times I went to a place near a meat slaughterhouse where thousands of water buffalo bones were...

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be...

Expecting good things to last and unwanted things to stay away forever is simply unrealistic

May virtue and serenity belong to all, even my competitors and adversaries.

Seekers inevitably want to get a better handle on life; we want to figure things out. We know intuitively that the events of our lives are not always arbitrary. We feel connected, however intangibly....

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

That day I had a poignant feeling, like an early mourning. What I had most dear had been crushed like a field of field flowers, razed to the ground to make room for a well -kept garden. Not even when...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

The deep pain we continue to experience reminds us of our love and keeps our hearts open.

When we are no longer so tightly identified with who we used to be and how we think things should continue to be-based on the past-every moment of wakefulness is an opportunity to actualize and enjoy...

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid, more protective of their endangered interests, more...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat