"The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all."

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Source : Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar (1978). “The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology”, HarperCollins Publishers

Peter Medawar

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“Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.”
“I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.”
“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.
“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Source : "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
“The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.”

Source : "International Islamic Army". Ettela'at, Tehran, August 7, 1991.
“I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.”
“You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.”

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