Norman Macbeth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Dream #Suggestions #Matter
Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Practice #Tree #Purpose
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Years #Despair #Fruit
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Mean #Problem #Natural
When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].
-- Norman Macbeth

#Giving #Mind #Strange
This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it was: the inner circles are full of doubt, but the public utterances are confident. The doubts may be greater now and the confidence less serene, but it will be a long time before the public is given the full dark picture. There is still need for a dissenting voice, a devil's advocate, a skeptical whistle-blower.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Mean #Dark #Views
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Two Sides #Definitions #Tautology
The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.
-- Norman Macbeth

#Cat #Long #Black

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

Norman Macbeth famous quotes

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