Frasi di Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner è uno scrittore, giornalista e divulgatore scientifico statunitense, vincitore del Premio Pulitzer per la saggistica nel 1995 e del National Book Critics Circle Award nel 1999. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Novembre 1953
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Jonathan Weiner: Frasi in inglese

“We are doing what the dinosaurs did before us, only faster. We bring strangers together to make strange bedfellows, and we remake the beds they lie in, all at once.”

Origine: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 17, The Stranger's Power

“The rapid accumulation of change is not always progress, and forward motion is not always an advance.”

Origine: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 20, The Metaphysical Crossbeak (p. 289)

“All times seem special to those who live in them.”

Origine: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 19, A Partner in the Process (p. 276)

“Why are there so many kinds of animals? Adaptive radiations like Darwin’s finches are the essence of the answer.”

Origine: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 14, New Beings (p. 207)

“Evolution discloses a meaning in death, although the meaning is like some of the berries that Darwin tasted in the Galapagos, “acid & Austere.””

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Even Drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.

Chapter 5, A Special Providence (p. 82)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)

“Whether or not we choose to watch, evolution is shaping us all.”

Origine: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 1, Daphne Major (p. 16)

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