Quotes for All
anyone who writes about Darwin’s theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. Ernst Mayr
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? Epictetus
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself–if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down–I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the … Read more
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it’s something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent. Elizabeth Kolbert
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour… Lust … Read more
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the … Read more
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. Edward Young
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and Jovian had the good fortune to embrace the religious opinions which were supported by the spirit of the times and the zeal and numbers of the most powerful sect. Under his reign, Christianity … Read more