Errol White famous quotes
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I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.
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We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'
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The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,
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We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.
-- Errol White
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
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...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.
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