The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1982), as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), edited by Robert Andrews, p. 972
Short fiction, Homefaring (1983)
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 146
“He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”
“The woman manages to convey her intentions perfectly, with a simple glance.”
Original: La donna riesce a trasmettere perfettamente le sue intenzioni, con un semplice sguardo.
Source: prevale.net
Source: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 1
Context: It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all, and even if they don’t, a complete unified theory may not make much difference to our chances of survival. However, provided the universe has evolved in a regular way, we might expect that the reasoning abilities that natural selection has given us would be valid also in our search for a complete unified theory, and so would not lead us to the wrong conclusions.
Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for Productivity (1982)
Source: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995), Chapter 21, “Researchers Look to Local News for Trends” (p. 96)
[2000, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity, Lee, Strobel, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 9780310565703, http://books.google.com/books?id=5kgb7v1qlF4C]
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
