"If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator."

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Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.150, Penguin

Jerry A. Coyne

#Giving Up Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Research Quotes

“We have been cooperating with both the United States and Russia, have been actively supporting a greater understanding between them.”
“That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.”
“I'm trying to change the world.”
“Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.”
“I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.”
“I always talk about my characters like they're real people.”
“It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.”

Source : "ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER 30 Minute Q&A with Benjamin Walker, Timur Beckmambetov, Jim Lemley and Screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. February 22, 2012.
“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

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