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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

~Andrea Barrett

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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

~Bruce Jackson

Topics: Action Century Conflict Darwin Deal Define Describe Development Economic Entered Explain Freud Ideas Internal Marx Natural Natural World Spheres Three Trying World 20Th Century

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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Could Critique Darwin Example Factor Facts Field Himself Introverted Just Knowledge Might Normal Objective Other Over Reality Speaks Subjective Take Thinking Type Wide

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You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: About Bigger Changes Cosmic Culture Darwin Evolution Evolving Exciting Fact Faster Getting Go Goes Gradually He Horses In Fact Jumps Know Look Natural Natural Selection Phase Pigeon Said Scale See Selection Talking Things Through Very You

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Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

~Christopher Mcdougall

Topics: Behavior Bizarre Charles Darwin Even Found Human Idea Life Ring Saving Stranger Total

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Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

~Colin Camerer

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Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.

~Craig Venter

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We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

~Daniel Dennett

Topics: Adore Amused Babies Backwards Because Course Cute Darwin Funny Jokes Shows Us Why

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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

~Daniel Dennett

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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

~David Duchovny

Topics: Christ Darwin Going Listens Need Nietzsche Once Somebody Talk Who You

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