"The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?"

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Source : Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

Philip Kitcher

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“We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.”
“I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.”
“It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, youâ€™re going to kill it.”
“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”
“There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.”

Source : "Model Petra Nemcova Recovering After Tsunami". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2005.
“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly â€˜purely instrumentalâ€™ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections”

Source : Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge
“There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.”
“When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43

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