Randolph M. Nesse quotes
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“I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.”
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“Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.”
-- Randolph M. NesseSource : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.14, Vintage
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“If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.”
-- Randolph M. NesseSource : "Help Save Men and Help Cure Breast Cancer" by Jed Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.
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“The body is a bundle of careful compromises.”
-- Randolph M. NesseSource : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.12, Vintage
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.”
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Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.
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Source : Alberto Giacometti, Castello di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy) (1988). “Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989”
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“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”
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