"Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery."

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Source : Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”

James Mark Baldwin

#Modification Quotes #Machinery Quotes #Heredity Quotes

“Yet still the time:- 'It's so nice to come home'.”
“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me”
“The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.”

Source : Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge
“Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.”
“An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.”

Source : "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.
“I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.”
“You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian”

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