"Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course."

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Source : Asa Gray (1877). “Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism”

Asa Gray

#Wind Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Sides Quotes

“So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.”
“Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.”
“One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.”
“Arguments from authority carry little weight â€“ authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
“Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.”
“Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.”

Source : "Microsoft buys in Norwegian know-how" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 08, 2008.

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