"Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done."

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Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

David Papineau

#Done Quotes #Care Quotes #Speak Quotes

“You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.”

Source : "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.
“I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.”
“By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.”
“There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.”
“'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.”
“Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought.”
“I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.”
“Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.”

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