"By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy."

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Source : David Quammen (2012). “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

David Quammen

#Logic Quotes #Evolution Quotes #Cold Quotes

“Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.”
“... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.”
“Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.”
“Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.”
“I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.”
“Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.”
“Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.”
“Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.”

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