We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin…

As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an…

— Robert Ballard

My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s…

— Geoffrey Hinton

“Continental Drift you have moved through like an ice flow- steady slow substantial tumble of glacial tongue sweeping through valleys reshaped you arrived on…

— Nancy Boutilier

“The most spectacular example of continental drift and tectonic plate movement has to be the Indian Plate, a triangle of geomorphic crust which aeons…

— Charles Allen

“Black_Venus: Here it goes: Curious mosaic Continental drift Parabolic metaphor Elemental rift Time and transposition Conscious intermission Assertion? Desertion -- Black_Venus: That's all I…

— Julie Anne Peters

“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box…

— Criss Jami

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous…

— Raymond Cattell

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

— John Lahr

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

— Rick Moody

“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of…

— Charles Darwin

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding