MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory… — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Such are the inconsistences of humans in uniform, that the same endothermic vertebrates, which were believed a blessing, an aid to nostalgia,… — John Lewis-Stempel Copy Share Image
We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
“The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination.” — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer Copy Share Image
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found… — Erik Fosnes Hansen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
![“In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed and confounded by the supreme constructive ingenuity revealed not only in the retina and in the dioptric apparatus of the vertebrates but even in the…” quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/42d/santiago-ramon-y-cajal-17256_amazed_in-the-study-of-this-membrane-the-retina_1148128.jpg)
![“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?” quote by Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/223/seth-shostak-2047_aliens_o-ne-might-ask-why-in-a-galaxy-of-a-few_2866062.jpg)
