Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
“Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’ gums and menstruation. Survival of the fittest was a technical term that covered a lot more close-enough-is-close-enough than actual design.”
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 29 (p. 309)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Evolution was a paste-and-baling-wire process that came up with half-assed solutions like pushing teeth through babies’…" by Daniel Abraham?
Daniel Abraham141
speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969Related quotes
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 9 (pp. 93-94)
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) American banker and philanthropist
Describing his confrontations with a rival at the Chase Manhattan Bank, as quoted in "Born to Be Mild" in The New York Times (20 October 2002)
“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”
Robert Capa (1913–1954) American photographer
Randy Kennedy, "The Capa Cache" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin, New York Times, Jan. 27, 2008.
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Evolution is a design process; it’s just not an intelligent design process.”
Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
