"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism."

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Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

Jerry A. Coyne

#World Quotes #Materialism Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.”
“I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.”
“Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.”
“As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.”
“The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”
“My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.”
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our motherâ€™s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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