"Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it."

-- Jared Diamond

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“I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.”
“Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.”
“I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.”
“Respect me, or put me to death.”
“For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.”
“Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.”

Source : Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”
“Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.”

Source : "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.
“To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.123, Penguin

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