Science Quote by Kim Todd

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all…

— Henry Walter Bates

After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

— Jack Handey

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure,…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

— Isabella Rossellini

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

— Francis Crick

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

“The ship’s lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane.”

— Dan Lopez

“That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number,…

— aristotle

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

Linnaeus had it constantly in mind:'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the…

— Sten Lindroth

“4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its predecessor, it…

— Tom McDonough