Darwin 200: Many happy returns

Notable Quotables

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris, from his lecture "The Beauty of Life"

"‘Never look at an ugly thing twice. It is fatally easy to get accustomed to corrupting influences."
English architect CFA Voysey (1857-1941)

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."
Clarence Day

"Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing."
Cicero

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
Sir Francis Bacon, "Essays"

"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."
Gilbert Highet, "The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning"

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
Walter Wriston

"I'd like to give you a piece of my mind."
"Oh, I couldn't take the last piece."
Ginger Rogers to Frances Mercer in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
Booker T. Washington

"Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
Attributed to Groucho Marx in "The Groucho Letters" by Arthur Sheekman

"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)

16 Responses

Chris Barton, on February 3, 2009 at 5:41 am said:

Thanks, Becky! (Though I do wish Mother Darwin and Mother Lincoln had taken us potentially overwhelmed readers into consideration and spaced things out by a week or two…)

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darwinsbulldog, on February 3, 2009 at 8:52 am said:

Thanks, Becky, for the post and the plug! But my blog is now at this address:

http://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com/

Thanks!

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Casey, on February 3, 2009 at 9:29 am said:

This should be fun!

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Becky, on February 3, 2009 at 10:20 am said:

Chris, even an extra week or two aren’t enough. There’s so much stuff we could study Darwin for the next two years and still not cover it all.

Michael, fixed, sorry about that. I cut and pasted from my previous post, so I’ll update that as well.

Casey, woohoo!

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Sheila, on February 4, 2009 at 11:23 am said:

Last year I gave Richard a Valentine’s card (I think I got the link from your post) that had a sketch of Darwin on the front, with a “I select you, naturally” on it. Made us laugh for at least a week, whenever we looked at it.

I’ve been listening to those IOT podcasts about Darwin all week, when the kids are at swim lessons. Amazing how much information they have about him.

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Becky, on February 4, 2009 at 11:36 am said:

Sheila, oh what a pair of lovebirds! (Finches?). Say, were you able to get those podcasts downloaded because I haven’t been able to do it, which means we’re tethered to the computer in the kitchen, not always practical. I’m wondering if my computer is having some sort of glitch…

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Becky, on February 4, 2009 at 11:38 am said:

Sheila, I don’t think I had the links to the cards, but I’ve found the science Valentine’s here, for anyone interested,

http://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_scientist_valentines.html

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darwinsbulldog, on February 4, 2009 at 11:40 am said:

I’ve got the mp3 of all 4 of the In Our Time Darwin podcasts, I can email them to anyone if need be…

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Becky, on February 4, 2009 at 11:45 am said:

Michael, I’d be delighted to take you up on this (I’ll even send you a Darwin valentine in thanks!). I was going to spend part of tomorrow — today is an endless round of music lessons followed by a never-ending 4H meeting) — seeing if a different browser and such would help. When of course we could be doing something much more interesting, such as reading all about the primitive whales giving birth on land…

My email is farmschool at hmsinet dot ca

and just in case I’ll drop you a note, if you’re too busy posting updates to check back here.

Many, many thanks!

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Sheila, on February 5, 2009 at 8:53 pm said:

Oh, I’m late to this, but I did get them podcasted onto my iPod. I don’t know how to email them to you, but if Michael doesn’t do it LMK and I’ll figure it out. Doubt it’ll be difficult. These little Macs are brilliant at things like this.

They’re very chatty, I have to say.

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