Quotes about animal
animal different function
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. Richard Owen
animal different form
Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
animal feelings cages
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage Richard Paul Evans
animal thinking whales
Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals. Richard Dawkins
animal variation theme
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.
animal zodiac predictions
The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.
animal space survival
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.
animal fossils found
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
animal complicated known
We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.
animal soul sublime
Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers. Richelle Mead
animal degrees language
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree... Rex Harrison
animal survival humans
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes. Rebecca West
animal years two
I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings. Ryan McGinley
animal people valleys
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth. Russell Baker
animal meat vegetarian
If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat. Russell Brand
animal men hands
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature. Robert McNamara
animal blood healthy
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses of equal size. I never found organisms. Thus, I conclude that bacteria do not occur in healthy human or animal tissues. Robert Koch
animal growth tuberculosis
To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.
animal growth important
... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.
animal law physics
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. Robert Lanza
animal smell kitchen
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
animal groups social
We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups. Robert Greene
animal important reason
Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being
animal dangerous smallest
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous
animal ink-and-paper territory
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. Robert Anton Wilson
animal reality tunnels
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel
animal nuts ideas
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story. Richard Linklater
animal goal religion
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. Richard Lovelace
animal rights people
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. Richard Gere
animal people deals
You handle animals. You deal with people. Red Auerbach
animal technique photographer
The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically. Robert Doisneau
animal voice opinion
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf. River Phoenix
animal earth duty
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.