Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Rebecca West

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

William James

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Richard Louv

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Richard M. Nixon

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not...

Richard Dawkins

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

Robert Nozick

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Yuri Milner

It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Twyla Tharp

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

Win Butler

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Johannes Kepler

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

Obie Trice

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

Julian Baggini

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

James Surowiecki

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

Henry Paulson

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

Joanna Newsom

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.