A Quote by Lynn Margulis
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
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Into this universe, and why not knowing
Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as wind along the wate,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.
In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.
We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.
Being bisexual doesn't mean I'm suddenly willy-nilly running around.
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are embarked on; and along with that will go the spiritual discoveries and, I feel, the inexhaustible wonder that one feels, that opens more and more the more you know. It's simply that this increasing knowledge constantly enlarges your kingdom and the capacity for admiring and loving the universe.
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