Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
"Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation."
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Samuel Adams
Politician
"It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer"
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher, Playwright
"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false."
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"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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"I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity."
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"And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate."
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"The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical."
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"There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty."
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"If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes."
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"There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes."
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"One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence"
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"There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative."
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"The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it."
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"You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech."
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"There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money."
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"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."
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"To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price."
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"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life."
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"And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States."
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"Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural."
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"For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable."
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"If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced."
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"In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning."
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