Clarity Quote by Alfred Romer Download Open image “In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.” — Alfred Romer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarity Increasing knowledge Knowledge Knows Loss Paleontology Science Triumphant Vertebrates
“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.” — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages. — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!! — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
