"Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows."

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Source : Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.288, Lantern Books

Ernst Mayr

#Understanding Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I believe I accepted the first hit of crack because I am an addict, and that's what addicts do. There was nothing extraordinary going on in my life at the time - nothing beyond the normal pressures and ups and downs that all people face. I did not believe I would be hooked. I think that is probably true of most addicts and alcoholics. I haven't met anyone yet who said he or she took their first hit or drink knowing or even suspecting they would drink alcoholically or become addicted.”
“There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness”
“Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .”
“Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.”
“If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.”
“Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.”
“Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.”
“Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.”

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