"We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured how we came to be."

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Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.233, Penguin

Jerry A. Coyne

#Law Quotes #Brain Quotes #Proud Quotes

“With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.”
“For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.”
“Never moon a werewolf.”
“If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!”
“To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.”
“The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.”
“If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.”
“... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.”

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