Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....
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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
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The elite artist knows that his audience views his art in a context of certain predispositions; he anticipates success or failure within a def...
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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