"On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity."

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Ernst Mayr

#Believe Quotes #Events Quotes #Earth Quotes

“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”

Source : Owen Wister (1930). “Theodore Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919”
“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.”
“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
“A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information”

Source : "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.
“RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox”
“One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.”
“It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.”

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