Best Urdu Islamic Quotes & Sayings

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning" and Turing's equally revolutionary inversion were aspects of a single discovery: competence without comprehension. Comprehension, far from being a Godlike talent from which all design must flow, is an emergent effect of systems of uncomprehending competence: natural selection on the one hand, and mindless computation on the other. These twin ideas have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but they still provoke dismay and disbelief in some quarters, which I have tried to dispel in this chapter. Creationists are not going to find commented code in the inner workings of organisms, and Cartesians are not going to find an immaterial res cogitans "where all the understanding happens". — Daniel C. Dennett

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity. — Anandamayi Ma

But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The poem had been written by an adult, not some teen with an unfinished brain. Whoever wrote the line bootlicker, sycophant, toady intended damage, understood how Carla would feel, how anybody would feel, being called such names. The line was playful, offhand, the poem itself a smug, imperious cat stretch. The writer was having fun. Amy had been comfortable in the same room with someone whose idea of fun this was. — Jincy Willett

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP — Lady Gaga

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold. — Adam Mansbach

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable. — Sarah Kay

He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-- — Tamora Pierce

Juliette, he says, and he mouths the name, barely speaking at all, and he's pouring molten lava into my limbs and I never even knew I could melt straight to death. — Tahereh Mafi

By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. — Dorothy L. Sayers