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History Of Life Quotes

This collection holds 14 history of life quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Marcus Tullius Cicero, Stephen Jay Gould and James Gleick.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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James Gleick / Author

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

William Irwin Thompson / Critic

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Steve Goodman / Singer-Songwriter

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

E. O. Wilson / Biologist

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Nathan Wolfe

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

David Attenborough / Broadcaster

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

Susanne Katherina Langer / Philosopher

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal / Pathologist

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Phillip E. Johnson / Law Professor

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Salman Rushdie / Novelist

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Marcus Tullius Cicero / Philosopher

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

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