The Bird Watching Answer Book Quotes & Sayings

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cumulated in subjective consciousness. — Richard Dawkins

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. — Laura Erickson

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. — Marya Mannes

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them. — Anton Chekhov

If we abide in love for God we will be forever united with Him and with His kingdom of love. — Sunday Adelaja

It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. — Robert Mankoff

In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay. — Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires. — Noah Levine

And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt. — Anthony Trollope