Phyletic Evolution Quotes & Sayings

We are flooded with books; books come pouring out of the publishing meat grinder. And, the quality has dropped severely. We may be able to print a book better, but intrinsically the book, perhaps, is not better than it was. We have a backlist of books, superb books, by Margaret Wise Brown, by Ruth Krauss, by lots of people. I'd much rather we just took a year off, a moratorium: no more books. For a year, maybe two - just stop publishing. And get those old books back, let the children see them! Books don't go out of fashion with children; they only go out of fashion with adults. So that kids are deprived of the works of art which are no longer around simply because new ones keep coming out.

from The Openhearted Audience (1980) — Maurice Sendak

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control). — Warren Farrell

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. — Frank Zappa

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation. — Stephen Jay Gould

I've had kids come to me and say, 'Oh, I loved your movie when I was a kid, and I became a marine biologist.' It's crazy. — Jason James Richter

Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away. — Larry Brown

Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of millennia to come. But a few hundred million years from now, barring a fix by our descendants, this relentless heating will substantially change Earth's biosphere in ways that might not be survivable for us. — Seth Shostak

The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid. — Steven M. Stanley

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk. — Chuck Thompson

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. — Alana Stewart

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price. — Deborah Kass

I'd felt so many things since our journey began - joy, fear, hope, horror - but until now, I'd never once felt alone. — Ransom Riggs

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social. — Joseph Wood Krutch