Brain Quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations:…

— Ada Lovelace

“Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history.”

— George Eliot

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the…

— Niles Eldredge

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

— Paul Reiser

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the…

— Robert T. Bakker

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

— Tony Juniper

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found…

— Jack London