#ada

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#adaptation #been #biology #centrality #discovering

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#like #madame #people #public #public service

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best. ↗

— John Grisham

#adapted #almost #away #been #being

I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada. ↗

— Emm Gryner

#expired #felt #happy #here #home

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#california #door #eroding #gaming #i

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#economy #gaming #nevada

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#brussels #building #competitiveness #concentrated #eu

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#being #canada #five #gotten #half

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster