"The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No."

-- Roger Lewin

#People Quotes #Risk Quotes #Chicago Quotes

“At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.”
“Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago....”
“As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.”
“I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.”

Source : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
“It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.”

Source : Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation
“George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.”
“Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.”
“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”

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