Neil Shubin Quotes

Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

Neil Shubin

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• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fall
  • Made
  • Jump

• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Together
  • Career
  • Words

• There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Job
  • Career
  • Me

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Day
  • Revolution

• So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Acting
  • Perspective
  • Actor

• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • American
  • Giving

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• To seek the highest good is to live well.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Live
  • Well

• St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • People
  • Christmas
  • Year

• Loveless moments are to be avoided.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Moments
  • Loveless

• I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• [People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

  

  Don McLean
  • Bad
  • News
  • Steps

• I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Permanent

• There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • World
  • Peace
  • Neighbors

• When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Stuff
  • White
  • Rooms

• Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example, why do almost all the organisms that are alive today on our planet use the same genetic code? If they share a common ancestor, the code could have evolved just once and then been inherited from the most recent common ancestor that present organisms share. On the other hand, if organisms in different species share no common ancestors, the code must have evolved repeatedly.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Planet
  • Species
  • Ancestors

• Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

  

  Neil Shubin
  • Species
  • Lived
  • Extinct