Top 30 Neil Shubin Quotes

#1. Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.

Neil Shubin

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#2. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#3. When you see these deep similarities among different organs and bodies, you begin to recognize that the diverse inhabitants of our world are just variations on a theme.

Neil Shubin

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#4. Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

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#5. [T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.

Neil Shubin

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#6. Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

Salman Rushdie

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#7. In a perfectly designed world - one with no history - we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.

Neil Shubin

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#8. With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

Neil Shubin

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#9. Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

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#10. We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

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#11. God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.

Craig Groeschel

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#12. I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

Ben Mendelsohn

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#13. As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

Dada Bhagwan

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#14. Whole batteries of genes are turned on and off during fly development, and this
pattern of gene activity serves to demarcate the different regions of the fly.

Neil Shubin

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#15. In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#16. The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet attachments between cells in our bodies.

Neil Shubin

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#17. We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

Neil Shubin

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#18. We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

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#19. All the genetic switches that make fingers, arm bones, and toes do their thing during the third to eighth week after conception.

Neil Shubin

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#20. Knowing something about the deep origins of humanity only adds to the remarkable fact of our existence: all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures.

Neil Shubin

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#21. Some people can detect the odor molecules in a green bell pepper at a concentration of less than one part per trillion. That is like picking out one grain of sand from a mile-long beach.

Neil Shubin

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#22. You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde

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#23. It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Narendra Modi

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#24. All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

Wyclef Jean

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#25. I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.

David Bowles

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#26. When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.

Kimberly Schlapman

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#27. We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Neil Shubin

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#28. I believe people can move things with their minds.

Justin Timberlake

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#29. No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#30. We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

Haruki Murakami

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