"Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever."

-- Matt Ridley

#Forever Quotes #Genetics Quotes #States Quotes

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful...”
“Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.”
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
“Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.”
“You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.”
“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press
“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.”

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