Vertebrate Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from,… — Charles Lyell
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of… — H. L. Mencken
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
[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… — Seth Shostak
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out… — Ambrose Bierce
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
God: a gaseous vertebrate. — Aldous Huxley
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest… — Greg Graffin
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which… — August Krogh
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the… — Ambrose Bierce
NO BACK BONE BUT I STILL STAND STRONG FEEL GREAT I DONT NEED A VERTEBRATE — Sam Marcellin

Who Wrote These Vertebrate Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Vertebrate Quotes as follows: