"When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species."

-- William Bateson

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“If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”
“Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.”
“Iâ€™m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then youâ€™re stupid.”
“Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.”
“Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.”

Source : "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.”
“We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.”

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