Niles Eldredge Quotes

#1. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Mother Teresa

#2. Is this the first time you've peed around another human being?"
"Around a guy," she shouted, "yes!"
"I didn't ask for this!" Gabe shouted back. He started humming loudly - " The Imperial March".

Rainbow Rowell

#3. Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

Mick Jagger

#4. And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ... We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.

Niles Eldredge

#5. Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Narendra Modi

#6. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#7. There is measure in all things.

Horace

#8. One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Nicolas Cage

#9. I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

Niles Eldredge

#10. Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

Niles Eldredge