#vol

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#both #catholic #century #embraced #evangelical

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #due #effect #exercise #final

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#age #away #early #early age #enough

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop. ↗

— David Eagleman

#evolution #science #intelligence

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence #intelligence

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

#donkeys #ego #evolution #intelligence #poses

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#dogs #night #over #revolution #russia

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ↗

— Jon Postel

#assistant #computer #got #graduate #graduate school

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#children #even #even now #fathers #feminism