Animals Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith Download Open image ““our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature”” — Peter Godfrey-Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“and do not speak to me, please, of African Eve or LUCA, the three-and-a-half-billion-year-old blob of goo that was our Last Universal Common Ancestor.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The fact that you came from a very beautiful worm demonstrate that, evolution is more romantic than scientific. Thus, it arouses the mind rather… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Crabs and some shrimp, in contrast, will groom injured areas.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an “inner model” of the world,” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“They are curious, embracing novelty, protean in behavior as well as in body” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first… — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
