Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

John Ambrose Fleming

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution is no longer necessarily progressive; it no longer strives toward perfection or any other goal. It is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Richard Kissel

Evolution is a process. As long as there's life on the planet, it can't not happen.

Haruki Murakami

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Trey Songz

I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I did because it was so intrusive. That's why I like Evolution - it's a strong yet subtle scent.

Stephen Jay Gould

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

Ernie Accorsi

There has been no evolution of the quarterback,

Ann Cleeves

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Thomas Kilroy

I think a good adaptation should send you back to the original.

Kelly Ward

I'm not sure how many people were aware that 'Othello' was black, so when she did that play, she opened everyone's eyes, ... Her adaptation of that play was very fresh when she did it. It was something new that people had never seen before, which was typical of her personality.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.