Biology Quote by Niles Eldredge

The word trill really REALLY bugs me! Like who made that up???

— Kim Kardashian

“bowls of cornflakes,”

— Maeve Binchy

“Ex Scientia, Tridens (From knowledge, seapower)”

— US Naval Academy

“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want them all."…

— Jerry Spinelli

I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd…

— Jack Handey

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the…

— Paul Theroux

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

— Julius Sumner Miller

“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase,…

— W.G. Sebald

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land…

— Robert Grosseteste

“Avoid chasing after the never ending deluge of potential trinkets.”

— Steven Redhead

“I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs.”

— Ned Vizzini