Tim Burton  - Quotes

 We all know interspecies romance is weird. 

Tags: aliens   animals   biology   genetics   interspecies   love   romance   scifi   weird   weirdness     


James Frey  - Quotes

 Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?  

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Stephen Jay Gould  - Quotes

 Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. 

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Bill Bryson  - Quotes

 If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. 

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 Dans la nature rien ne se cr 

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Becca Fitzpatrick  - Quotes

 Vee-  

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Natalie Angier  - Quotes

 Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.  

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Geoffrey Miller  - Quotes

 Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say this is due to patriarchy is to beg the question of the behavior's origin. If men control society, why don't they just shut up and enjoy their supposed prerogatives? The answer is obvious when you consider sexual competition: men can't be quiet because that would give other men a chance to show off verbally. Men often bully women into silence, but this is usually to make room for their own verbal display. If men were dominating public language just to maintain patriarchy, that would qualify as a puzzling example of evolutionary altruism--a costly, risky individual act that helps all of one's sexual competitors (other males) as much as oneself. The ocean of male language that confronts modern women in bookstores, television, newspapers, classrooms, parliaments, and businesses does not necessarily come from a male conspiracy to deny women their voice. It may come from an evolutionary history of sexual selection in which the male motivation to talk was vital to their reproduction. 

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