Thomas Hunt Morgan Quotes

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

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• When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Flying
  • Idiot

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • You
  • Responsibility
  • Choice

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Political
  • Black
  • Church

• I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Up

• I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Political
  • Hand
  • Revolution

• 'I don't even know who I am.''In a way,' answered Gwydion, 'that is something we must all discover for ourselves.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander

• Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • People
  • Mistake

• I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Remember

• It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Childhood

• Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Spring

• At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

  

  John Darnielle
  • School
  • Why
  • Kids

• When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

  

  Peter S. Beagle
  • Hero

• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Evolution
  • Wishes
  • Fancies

• Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Humans
  • Pressure
  • Mutual

• The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking.

  

  Alexis Lichine
  • Learn
  • Wine
  • Drinking

• Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

  

  Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • Humans
  • Evolution
  • Transformation