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Sherwood Washburn

Sherwood Washburn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.”
-- Sherwood Washburn

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“Much of what we think of as human evolved long after the use of tools. It is probably more correct to think of much of our structure as the result of culture than it is to think of men anatomically like ourselves slowly developing culture.”
-- Sherwood Washburn

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”
“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013
“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
“Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite.”
“Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'”

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