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  • In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

    Eye   Cells   Black  
  • Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

    Views   Black   World  
  • We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

    Design   Black   Boxes  
  • Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

    Sorry   Pain   Loneliness  
  • I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

    New York   Black   Mind  
    Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
  • I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

    People   Black   Littles  
  • School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.

    Dream   School   Giving  
  • The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.

  • If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

    Funny   Travel   Airplane  
  • Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.

    Goal   Black   Important  
    Source: www.salon.com
  • I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

    Reality   Light   People  
  • Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

    Art   Real   Black  
    George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.78, A&C Black
  • We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

    Motivation   Soul   Black  
    Source: www.rferl.org
  • A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

    Lying   Long   Black  
    "Notes On Structured Programming" by Edsger Dijkstra, April 1970.
  • The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

    Hate   Writing   Views  
    "Katy Perry: 'You have to bust your ass at this'". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.
  • Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.

    Keys   Political   Black  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

    Echoes   Magic   Black  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

    Angel   Cities   Perfect  
    Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.61, Anchor
  • The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

    Moving   Knowing   Black  
  • In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

    Simple   Car   Black  
    "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.
  • As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

  • My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

    Team   School   Black  
    "10 Comics to Watch: Joe Mande Q&A". Interview with Daniel Lehman, www.backstage.com. July 9, 2012.
  • Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.

    Black   Stories   Able  
    Phillip E. Johnson (1997). “Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds”, p.77, InterVarsity Press
  • If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.

    Real   Order   Issues  
  • Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

    Long   Black   Important  
    "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.
  • I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

    Doors   Sick   Brave  
  • Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  • Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.

    Soul   Black   Secret  
    Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
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