Quotes About Arthropods

#1. The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.

Benjamin Van Roy

#2. There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

Peter Reading

#3. Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

Frank B. Salisbury

#4. Consider the magnitude of this... Taxonomists have described almost a million species of arthropods, and all fit into four major groups; one quarry in British Columbia, representing the first explosion of multicellular life, reveals more than twenty additional arthropod designs!

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#6. So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

E. O. Wilson

#7. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Theophile Gautier

#8. No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

Phoebe Tonkin

#9. If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

Khaled Hosseini

#10. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

Pascal Mercier

#11. Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

Steven Soderbergh

#12. A face shaped by both love and adversity. But where neither held sway. They were balanced, point to point.

Cameron Dokey

#13. I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

Bernard Ebbers

#14. I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.

Stevie Nicks

#15. What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

Mike White

#16. I don't actually get recognised. I only have my hair done and make-up put on when I am on TV. The rest of the time, I go out without make-up on, so people don't recognise me.

Delia Smith

#17. The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Thomas Paine