Carlos Salcedo

“The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive and are therefore fresh. It was macabre habit, in the related Ichneumon wasp, that provoked Darwin to write: 'I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent god would have designedly created the Ich-neumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars...' He might as well have used the example of a french chef boiling lobsters alive to preserve their flavor.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“Hayatımızın ikinci bölümünde açığa vurduğumuz mizacımız, çoğunlukla öyle olsa bile, her zaman başlangıçtaki mizacımızın gelişmiş veya solmuş, güçlenmiş veya yumuşamış şekli değildir; bazen de tamamen zıt bir mizaç, adeta tersyüz edilmiş bir giysidir.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world championship. Humanitiy needs a lesson in humility.”
― Richard Dawkins

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein