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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer 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
[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