Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

John Eccles

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

Stephen Meyer

Our policy proposal for science education is that students should learn the strengths and the scientific weaknesses of modern Darwinian theory.

Tina Brown

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Laura Martin

It's a Darwinian experiment. Viacom is hoping that one or two hosts will be as popular as Howard. But Howard is a unique talent and he has loyal advertisers.

George Gaylord Simpson

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

Bruce Lipton

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

Bruce Cameron

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Rep Crooks

Just when we got it solved a whole faction of people we never heard from before are talking.

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Steve Alic

In the past, aberrations have occurred to make it one week. It will be two weeks exclusively every year. Two weeks is natural.

Dan Ferrelli

It's possible that not all of the homicides occurred in Aurora's jurisdiction.

Andrew Stuart

It never occurred to me that this was a trick. In this industry, you take somebody at their word.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Robert Finch

They haven't occurred as often as they did previously.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Mark Shaw

The half-marathon seems to be the most popular event.

Tom Adams

The idea that video stores are magically going to go away for some reason is misguided. It is still the most popular way to watch movies.

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Brunner

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

Olga Kurylenko

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Dean Ornish

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

Jayne Anne Phillips

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.