"The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to anotherâ€¦.No. It wasnâ€™t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact."

-- Lynn Margulis

#Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes #Mutation Quotes

“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”
“The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.”
“Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates”
“The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.”

Source : Environmental Science and Technology, February 1968.
“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”
“P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded how much we really hate government. We're not always necessarily great at the task of running government. We're the anti-government party. It actually makes some sense we're not so good at that. But you got to have basic competence in how you run the government, even in how you reduce its effectiveness in people's lives.”
“I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.”
“No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.”

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