"Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces."

-- Thomas Browne

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“The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.”
“Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1991). “One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought”, p.138, Harvard University Press
“For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for”
“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.”
“I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
“I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.”
“Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”
“Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head”

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