Taxa Quotes & Sayings

I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them. — Lyle Lovett

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution? — Lynn Margulis

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
Nature makes no jumps.
[Natura non facit saltus]
All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world. — Carl Linnaeus

I wept as I understood. >i< Kill me now, >/i< she was saying. >i< Do it fast. Don't make it hurt. Kill me now. >/i< — Sarah J. Maas

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going. — Bill Frisell

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. — John Darnielle

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism. — Jon Anderson

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned. — Stephen King

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell

Evolution doesn't invent new cells or organs very often. In the same sense, once organ systems have been established by natural selection, they don't go extinct (though some organs lose their function - for instance the human appendix, which was originally larger in our ancestors, as seen in other mammals, and used to digest cellulose at an earlier stage of mammalian evolution). Through the long course of evolution, organs have retained their physiological functions, even if sometimes they get used in new ways. It's not at all uncommon to find ancient organs co-opted, or perhaps "improved upon" by more recent taxa, while at the same time retaining their basic functions under new environmental circumstances. — Greg Graffin

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD. — Steven M. Stanley

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. — Emily Mortimer

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever. — Chris Wooding

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. — Edmund Burke