“Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.”
― Warbreaker
― Warbreaker
“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“Glokta raised an eyebrow. 'Mysterious intruders in the dead of the night, gruesome murders on their very doorstep? Our visitors draw trouble like shit draws flies.' 'Huh,' said Severard, swatting a fly away with is gloved hand.”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body, with its trillions of cells organized into bones and muscles and nerves, a heart that pumps without ceasing for decades, miles and miles of blood vessels and kidney tubules, and a brain capable of thinking and talking and feeling. JBS: But madam, you did it yourself. And it only took you nine months.”
― The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
― The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.”
― Before They Are Hanged
― Before They Are Hanged
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