"I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to be considered, would ever conceive that everything could be summed up in a single mathematical formula, however complex."

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Source : "The evolutionary modification of genetic phenomena". Ronald Fisher, proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics 1, 1932.

Ronald Fisher

#Believe Quotes #Special Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

Source : "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.
“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”
“We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“All our loves are contained in all our other loves.”
“Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer."”

Source : "Ato Essandoh, Bourne Again". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2016.
“Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.”
“We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.”
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day”

Source : Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.

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