Speciation Quotes

#1. Owning your own racing ship wasn't even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh's pyramid with a reaction drive.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

Peter R. Grant

#4. I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

Ernst Mayr

#5. If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#6. On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Ernst Mayr

#7. Anyone who writes about Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.

Ernst Mayr

#8. Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.

Laura Nowlin

#9. I am NOT a committee.

Anonymous

#10. Too bad we were interrupted by Captain-brainless-bod and his trusty sidekick, Jenny-from-the-cockblock. Talk about bad timing.

Marta Brown

#11. Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse

Sissela Bok

#12. He tasted like gingermint and chocolate kulfi and something stronger and more powerful, something like want and need, and Owen drank him in and gave him back, dying for him in the subjective three hours it took to get to Malcolm's door.

Amy Lane

#13. On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

J. Michael Straczynski

#14. I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.

Rae Morris

#15. I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Gary Oldman

#16. New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

Lynn Margulis

#17. I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

Rachel Sklar

#18. When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

Hippocrates

#19. The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

Upton Sinclair

#20. Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Kelli O'Hara

#21. I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

Ozzy Osbourne

#22. That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another - that, in fact, has never been observed.

Robert J. Sawyer

#23. You have me under your spell.

With all the secrets you tell.

I can't make it stop.

Please don't let it stop.

You have me under your spell.

If you knew me as well,

You would make it stop.

I can't let it stop.

Kasie West

#24. The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

Gore Vidal