"Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless."

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Source : Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

Michael Denton

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“Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.”
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.”

Source : "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.
“I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.”

Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “Dear Austen”, p.19, Hachette UK
“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.”
“Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.”
“For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.”
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
“What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.”

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