“Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.” WayMayCharacterCertainPlansStagePagesAccountsAltered Author:Rose Tremain
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.” Has BeensProblemImaginationCasesStageDesignEvolutionMajorsEvidenceAccountsAbsenceTransitionConstructsInabilityFossilsPersistentCreationismNaggingPaleontology Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and which allows the prediction of those it shall undergo in the future. The only way to understand these changes and their causes is to study the present-day state of the globe in order to gradually reconstruct its earlier stages, and to develop probable hypotheses on its future state. Therefore, the present state of the earth is the only solid base on which the theory can rely.” WayStatesTodayEarthScienceOrderCausesUnderstandingStudyStageTheoryAccountsRelyGlobesPredictionsHypothesisPresent Day Author:Horace-Benedict de Saussure