"Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

#Statistics Quotes #Ancestry Quotes #Common Quotes

“Tim has given me confidence and strength and my foundation. He makes me feel like I can conquer the world.”
“I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!”
“I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried”

Source : Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr
“May is much sunshine through small leaves.”
“I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.”
“Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223
“The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.”
“Itâ€™s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No, we have a healthy attitude. We like it, itâ€™s fun, itâ€™s jolly; because itâ€™s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. Itâ€™s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic church in a nutshell.”

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