Top 20 Lamarck Quotes
#1. Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.
Sara Maitland
#2. According to Lamarck, there was a force - the 'power of life' - that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#3. According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
Ernst W. Mayr
#4. Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
Richard Owen
#5. The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
Mitch Daniels
#6. What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#7. On the face of it he seemed to be congratulating himself on dealing with patients more humanely than Yealland, but then why the mood of self-accusation? In the dream he stood in Yealland's place. The dream seemed to be saying, in dream language, don't flatter yourself. There is no distinction.
Pat Barker
#8. Arrogant little miscreants, L'atel thought to himself.
Dave Cole
#10. When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
Maria Lassnig
#11. All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#13. We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
Russell M. Nelson
#15. It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
Sun Tzu
#16. All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#17. It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#18. It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
#19. When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they were doing & the best of them had no stomach for it for a long time after that.
Brian Andreas
#20. Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
Steve Martin
