#evolution

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#devours #like #own #revolution #saturn

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#evolution #godless #insist #parents #right

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#being #belong #club #computer #computers

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#excited #future #how #i #learn

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#meaning-of-life #science #why-we-are-here #beauty

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#darwinism #evolution #intelligent-design #science #spirituality

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

#america #healing #need #normalcy #present

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#evolution #i #i think #internet #linear