Quotes About Diversity

Thumbs understand the fingers better than the fingers understand the thumb. Sometimes the fingers feel sorry the thumb is not a finger. The thumb is needed more often than any of the fingers. Look close at any thumb and you see it is not proud. Each finger has two knuckles, a thumb only one knuckle, and they need each other.

Mercado urged instead that people with the same defect not marry, because their children would be at greatest risk of developing the same hereditary disease. All people should seek out a spouse as different from themselves in as many individual characteristics as possible.

We humans have 23 pairs, but pea plants have only 7. Yeast have 16. Some butterflies have 134.

Men and women of the present day are, to those we might hope to bring into existence, what the pariah dogs of the streets of an Eastern town are to our own highly-bred varieties," Galton predicted.

In fact, there's no single species of bacteria that we humans all share. We house personalized zoos.

Lewontin gathered measurements of seventeen different proteins in a wide range of human populations, from the Chippewa to the Zulu, from the Dutch to the people of Easter Island. When he sorted people according to their race, he found that the genetic differences between races accounted for only 6.3 percent of the total genetic diversity in humans. The genetic diversity within populations, such as the Zulu or the Dutch, contained a staggering 85.4 percent.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

Today's Europeans are fairly uniform, genetically speaking. But that uniformity came out of a biological blender.

Trudno wyobrazi? sobie, ?e rak ma cokolwiek wspólnego z ró?owym grapefruitem. A jednak oba sÄ… produktami mozaicyzmu: ?ywych linii komórkowych ró?niÄ…cych siÄ™ od reszty ciaÅ'a mutacjami, które odziedziczyÅ'y po komórkach macierzystych.

Quella che lei chiama Bologna, è un cosa grande, che va da Parma fino a Cattolica [...] dove davvero la gente vive a Modena, lavora a Bologna e la sera va a ballare a Rimini [...] è una strana metropoli [...] che s'allarga a macchia d'olio tra il mare e gli Appennini.

Each man is different. Each man must follow his own path. Each man is the same. Each man must follow his own path.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Yo no soy de ningún bando —repuso Fermín—. Es más, las banderas me parecen trapos de colores que huelen a rancio y me basta ver a cualquiera que se envuelva en ellas y se le llene la boca de himnos, escudos y discursos para que me entren cagarrinas. Siempre he pensado que el que siente mucho apego a un rebaño es que tiene algo de borrego. El prisionero del cielo

Mi?o?? jest jak w?dlina: jest salami i jest mortadela.

Cada um vive a fé à sua maneira, dizia - lhe. Mas não conte a ninguém que eu disse isto, ou mandam-me para as missões a ver se alguma anaconda me engole.

Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Zlo?a pretpostavlja moralnu odluku, nakanu i stanoviti promišljaj. Debili ili prostak ne razmišlja niti rezonira. On djeluje nagonski, kao zvijer, uvjeren da postupa ispravno, da uvijek ima pravo i ponosan je što podjebava, s oproštenjem, svakoga tko mu se u?ini druk?ijim, pa bilo to bojom, vjerom, jezikom, nacionalnoš?u ili, kao u slu?aju gospodina Federica, slobodnim aktivnostima. Na svijetu nam treba više istinski zlih ljudi, a manje potpunih budaletina.

La meritocrazia e il clima mediterraneo sono di necessità incompatibili. È il prezzo che paghiamo per avere il miglior olio d'oliva d mondo, immagino.

Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wer sich einer Herde angehörig zugehörig fühlt, hat etwas von einem Hammel.

Popoarele nu se privesc niciodat? în oglind?

el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres

Chi ama appartenere a un gregge deve avere qualcosa della pecora.

Yo no soy de ningún bando —repuso Fermín—. Es más, las banderas me parecen trapos de colores que huelen a rancio y me basta ver a cualquiera que se envuelva en ellas y se le llene la boca de himnos, escudos y discursos para que me entren cagarrinas. Siempre he pensado que el que siente mucho apego a un rebaño es que tiene algo de borrego.

Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.