Bats Quote by Charles Darwin

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but…

— Stephen Jay Gould

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

— Edgar Degas

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

— Ty Cobb

The hand is no different from what it creates.

— A.A. Attanasio

Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their…

— Stuart Chase

There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.

— Stan Musial

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

— Gilbert White

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and…

— H.P. Lovecraft

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be…

— Rene Descartes

“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an…

— Nick Webb