Top 23 Goldschmidt Quotes
#1. After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species.
Norman Macbeth
#2. The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].
Richard Goldschmidt
#3. F-ck you, p-ssy ass haters you should do you.
Drake
#4. The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.
Richard Goldschmidt
#5. But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.
Pippa Goldschmidt
#6. Trent grinned and winked at him. Just a heel click of my ruby slippers away, baby.
N.R. Walker
#8. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
Richard Goldschmidt
#9. I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at the telescope at night. I wonder if she hopes for cloudy nights and then feels guilty.
Pippa Goldschmidt
#11. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
Victor Hugo
#12. We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes ... The neo-Darwinian theory of the geneticists is no longer tenable.
Richard Goldschmidt
#13. Heaven is a place on earth, and it's a bookstore.
Mimi Strong
#14. All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.
Terry Pratchett
#15. How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.
Alison Levine
#16. However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Jim Hodges
#17. Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
David Lynch
#19. It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted.
Richard Goldschmidt
#20. I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.
Greta Gerwig
#21. Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
Artie Lange
#22. The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk
#23. It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?
Mary Doria Russell
