Transitional Quotes

45 quotes by 36 authors

It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear… — George Gaylord Simpson
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not… — Richard Tarnas
Anytime that is â€˜betwixt and betweenâ€™ or transitional is the faeriesâ€™ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a… — Brian Froud
But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized… — Katey Sagal
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional… — Joseph Stalin
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… — Charles Darwin
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. — Stephen Jay Gould
I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who… — Madeleine Albright
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as… — Michael Shermer
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on… — Lester Bangs
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between… — Otto Weininger
Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It… — Sri Aurobindo
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process. — Joschka Fischer
Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get… — John Anderson
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell
The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the ÂŽfirst time has… — Armin Mohler
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped.… — Carl Sagan
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation — Carl Sagan

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