"This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step."

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Source : "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.

John Maynard Smith

#Wind Quotes #Boeing Quotes #Steps Quotes

“You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.”
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”
“Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So donâ€™t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, donâ€™t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2010). “You're the One that I don't want”, p.223, Hachette UK
“When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy of the group from which power comes. The principal driving force that lies before us is that we have to recognize the nature of community as the evolutionary step that we just took a step backwards from in the last century.”
“There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.”
“We also confuse trust with familiarity.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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