![This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-argument-that-life-is-too-improbable-to-have-arisen-by-chance-comes-up-rep.jpg)
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These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane. Amy Sherman-Palladino
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If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. Napoleon Hill
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This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step. John Maynard Smith
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing. Iris Murdoch
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Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way. Melissa Walker
wind-blowing people nuclear
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back. Stewart Udall
wind-blowing doe purpose
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. Ursula K. Le Guin
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However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747 Richard Dawkins
steps backing-up steady
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
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I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
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You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in. Bryan Clay
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. Bear Grylls
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Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in. Antonis Samaras
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. Bob Ross
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. Ayaan Hirsi Ali