Lamarckism Quotes & Sayings

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions ... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity." — Erasmus Darwin

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way. — Hilary Mantel

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe! — Terry Pratchett

I've got to be sensible sometimes. — T-Pain

Even if you bar my way,
even if you stare me in the face,
I'll pass you by on the chasm's edge, finer than a hair. — Wislawa Szymborska

I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good. — David Sutcliffe

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me. — Markus Zusak

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future. — Zig Ziglar

What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind's secrets. — Nathan Hill

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child. — Paloma Faith

That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far. — Alexander McCall Smith

after I took his truck." "Hiked out. Finally flagged down a logging truck. Took him most of the day to make it home." "See. The thing is, I don't know if I coulda been friends with him again, after all I did. Just couldn't face him." "I think there was a part of him that knew that. Still, I guess he was hoping you'd call, you know, after you got his — Gardiner Harris