"Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source."

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Source : Stuart A. Kauffman (2010). “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion”, p.260, Basic Books

Stuart Kauffman

#Enemy Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Ethics Quotes

“Never focus on what you canâ€™t do - only imagine everything you could.”
“Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.96, New Harbinger Publications
“Working together is a way of knowing each other better.”
“I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.”
“Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.”
“The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.”
“Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'”
“You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.”

Source : "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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