History Of Life Quotes

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

History illumes reality,
vitalizes memory,
provides guidance in daily life

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.