Lamarckian Theory Quotes & Sayings

A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not. Genes, language, history: what it all meant in actual practice was that fear passed down through the years, altering organisms for generation after generation, thus altering the species. Fear, an evolutionary force. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Imagine: to be prepared to yield, to yield, to have nothing more to yield, to be broken, yet to be pressed to yield more! — J.M. Coetzee

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them. — Rebecca Makkai

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life. — Shantideva

Unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself. — Elizabeth Wein

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now. — Walter Kirn

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the
business only of the clergy to care for souls. — George MacDonald

If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live? — Julie Plec

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product. — Ralph Nader

Uhhhhh. Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful. — Jennifer Echols

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano. — Michael Cera

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles. — Greg Louganis

St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors. — Katherine Paterson

He had his mother's looks, his father's temper, and nobody's brains. — Craig Johnson