![Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. [...] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.](/assets/img/quote-photos/our-world-is-not-an-optimal-place-fine-tuned-by-omnipotent-forces-of-selection.jpg)
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past people debt
The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending. Carol Roth
past mexican black
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo. Carlos Fuentes
past novelty variation
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
past matter happened
Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now. Carl Crawford
past years meditation
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss
past frozen flow
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. C. S. Lewis
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier
past foolish subtle
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
past racism voter-fraud
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past. Aasif Mandvi
our-world long thrillers
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant. David Morrell
our-world expectations ambitious
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations. Carl Sagan
our-world way doctrine
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world. Alan Watts
our-world physics mechanic
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. Brian Greene
our-world years people
I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing. Jane Goodall
our-world upheaval world
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same. Carl Jung
our-world imagination world
We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination. Bob Ross
our-world oil people
Oil is sixty dollars a barrel. There are terrorists everywhere. We have a catastrophe in our world every ten minutes. I don't know how anybody's getting through anything. Right now, people just need to be entertained. Bob Saget
our-world fearless spirit
The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world. Arianna Huffington
perfection body units
The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit Carlos Castaneda
perfection
I expect perfection from myself. Bryce Harper
perfection perfect doe
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. Carolina Herrera
perfection would-be receiving
It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted. Jane Austen
perfection want enough
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it. Jascha Heifetz
perfection technique invisible
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. Alan Chadwick
perfection timing divine
I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should. Cheryl Richardson
perfection matter pounds
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition. Charles Lamb
perfection religion world
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. Edmund Burke