Nearly a million species of animals are already known. Of these, only a few thousand are endowed with anything which can be called... intelligence, only a few tens with high intelligence, and only one with conceptual thought. In the same way, there are hundreds of known religions; it had better be left to more orthodox writers than myself to enumerate those which can be called high religions. Animal evolution witnesses to a central upward trend of biological progress; it also shows us the retention of low types along with high, the throwing out of blind-alley side branches of specialisation at every level, and sometimes even degeneration. Religious evolution also shows a central progress--but equally the production of bizarre side-branches, the permanent confining of the religious spirit in low-level embodiments, its projection into every conceivable cul-de-sac, its too frequent bending over from upward to downward growth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider how little of a rarity children are--that every street and blind alley swarms with them--that the poorest people c...ommonly have them in most abundance--that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains--how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc.--I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The goal for all blind skiers is more freedom. You don't have to see where you're going, as long as you go. In skiing, you ski wit...h your legs and not with your eyes. In life, you experience things with your mind and your body. And if you're lacking one of the five senses, you adapt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally;... She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when my seven long years are out, O, then I'll marry Sally;... O, then we'll wed, and then we'll bed-- But not in our alley!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for... the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blind Beggar: How do you know so much about city ordinances? Inspector Clouseau: What sort of stupid question is that? Are yo...u blind? Blind Beggar: Yes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »