Quotes
Authors
Elliott Sober

"Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible."

-- Elliott Sober

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“It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.”
“Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.”
“When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation â€” this was the label for my generation â€” would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.”
“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”
“I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.”
“The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.”

Source : Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited
“Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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