"And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not."

-- Niles Eldredge

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.”
“What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.”
“For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.”
“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?”
“The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.”
“To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
“I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.”

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