It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability,… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image