"Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken."

Being, Now, World

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"Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."

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"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated."

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"We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box."

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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

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"Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked."

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