"Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA."

-- Carl Zimmer

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“I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.”
“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.”

Source : Heather Graham (2009). “Dust to Dust”, p.27, MIRA
“I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.”
“Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.”
“I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”
“America is the best half-educated country in the world.”
“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.”

Source : Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.
“If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.”

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