Appearance Quotes (4)
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), 12.
See also: | Agreement (5) | Man (112) | Opinion (36) | Philosopher (33) | Process (15) | Progress (117) | Unknown (8)
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors—they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
Code of the Lifemaker (1983, 2000),Chapter 1.
See also: | Child (39) | Confidence (4) | Explanation (20) | Fool (11) | Logic (66) | Predictability (3) | Scientist (71) | Thinking (56)
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.
Darwin's Finches (1947), 129.
See also: | Breed (4) | Difference (25) | Genetics (56) | Origin Of Species (30) | Problem (63) | Race (14)
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.
Diogenes Laertius, trans. Charles Duke Yonge, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1901), 411.
