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"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction."
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."
"Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences."
"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."
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