Evolutionarily Significant Quotes

#1. When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

Harold E. Varmus

#2. I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek. But I felt the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.

Charles Dickens

#3. It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Robert M. Lindner

#4. And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Charles Dickens

#5. No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short

Stephen Keague

#6. This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices.

Phyllis Hunter

#7. Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

John P. Conger

#8. Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9. Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith

#10. We have learned that it is better to live with one leg than to spend your life on your knees.

Gregory A. Freeman

#11. I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

Mikky Ekko