Quotes
Authors
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

"Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives rise to numerous phenomena. This power has, however, neither goal nor intention. It can do only what it does; it is only a set of acting causes, not a particular being. I was the first to establish this truth at a time when life was still thought to be a principle, an archeia, a being of some sort."

Source : "Lamarck, the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology". Book by Madeleine Barthélemy Madaule, p. 102, 1982.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#Life Quotes #Real Quotes #Order Quotes

“What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.”
“Life is a dream and death an awakening.”
“Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.”
“To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.”
“And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.”
“We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.”

Source : Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014
“There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.”

You may also like: