“People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with extraordinary grace and unfathomable cruelty. We're so terribly intelligent, and dreadfully easy to fool.”
― Spectred Isle
― Spectred Isle
“It’s a hard thing to look at something you want and to know that the right choice is to turn it down.”
― The Lady Astronaut of Mars
― The Lady Astronaut of Mars
“Behe named this inability to explain the creation of new taxa through genetics "Darwin's black box". When the box is opened, he expects evidence of the Deity to be found. However, inside Darwin's black box resides merely another type of genetics--developmental genetics”
― Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
― Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
“Men, I had often observed, were never happier than when they believed they were imparting wisdom.”
― A Perilous Undertaking
― A Perilous Undertaking
“Depending on yet more men seems to her like part of the problem. Better to rely on their own invisibility. A memory of that deer standing on the path then sprinting away. The sisterhood of idiot creatures, the wisdom that comes with knowing you could be prey.”
― The Porpoise
― The Porpoise
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