Allometry In Evolution Quotes & Sayings

If a university's colors were blue and pink, they could be the Fighting Sunsets. — Jarod Kintz

Well, promise me one thing, Liesel. If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right. — Markus Zusak

Hope doesn't like to be beaten down, though, does it? Hope is what gets us through. Hope, and the prayer it wants to become. — Jan Ellison

For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO. — Michael Lewis

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and resolving interpersonal problems, whether this is a marital conflict, an international conflict, a problem at work, difficulties in a friendship, political deadlocks, a family dispute, or a problem with a neighbor. — Simon Baron-Cohen

The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement that animated and still animates these bodies because the history continues and we live under no particular privileged conditions at any given time in this great process. — Emile Argand

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution? — Stephen Jay Gould

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak. — Richard Beymer

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu

That was the worst of growing up, she thought; they couldn't share things as they used to share them. — Virginia Woolf

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them. — Eddie Trunk

Chief Engineer Naomi Nagata towered over him. She stood almost two full meters tall, her mop of curly hair tied back into a black tail, her expression halfway between amusement and annoyance. — James S.A. Corey

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living. — Saskia Shakin

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers