"Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world."

-- Jared Diamond

#Acquisition Quotes #World Quotes #Body Quotes

“The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.”
“I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.”
“I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
“I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.”

Source : Song: Love And Affection, Album: Joan Armatrading, 1976
“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”

Source : "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967: A Documented Study" by Benjamin Pinkus, (p. 66), 1984.
“I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.”
“Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.”

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