Niles Eldredge Quotes
At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record.Niles Eldredge
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
Rafe Spall -
Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.
Mandy Bujold -
I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
Hannah Simone -
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
Malik Bendjelloul -
And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.
Rachel Caine -
I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.
Adrian Rogers -
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
D. H. Lawrence -
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
Vladimir Lenin -
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
Francis Bacon -
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
William Osler -
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Alan Rickman
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The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will.
Lewis H. Lapham -
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde -
When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.
Mike Royko -
At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record.
Niles Eldredge