![And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.](/assets/img/quote-photos/and-it-has-been-the-paleontologist-my-own-breed-who-have-been-most-responsible-f.jpg)
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reality yesterday promise
Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history! Billy Blanks
reality views special
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life. Robert Lanza
reality space information
Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.
reality influence existence
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.
reality consciousness aspect
Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.
reality data collecting
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. Robert J. Shiller
reality talking students
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.
reality faces anticipation
Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. Robert H. Schuller
reality emotional should-have
Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. Robert Greene
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas want compromise
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise. Thomas Hughes
ideas
I have ideas whirring around my head all the time. Timbaland
ideas upright-man revolutionary
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. Thomas Sankara
ideas
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. Thomas Sowell
ideas important raw-materials
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.
ideas political would-be
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...
ideas people political
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
knowing sin wells
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves. Blaise Pascal
knowing way
This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time. Sarah Dessen
knowing errors worry
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them. Warren G. Bennis
knowing not-knowing known
God is best known in not knowing him. Saint Augustine
knowing culture brown
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. Wes Bentley
knowing enemy vision
When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy. Zoketsu Norman Fischer
knowing land cliffs
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land. Zainab Salbi
knowing important love-and-marriage
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. Zig Ziglar
knowing storytelling ends
The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end. Tye Sheridan