"Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas."

-- Ian Hacking

#Taken Quotes #Wings Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.”
“The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 251), 1994.
“When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.”
“If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie”
“No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.”
“I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.”
“Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.”
“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.”

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