“It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.” RealMovingEasyModelsFleshToysInsects Author:Michael O'Donoghue
“Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.” WorldScienceSeaStrangeBirdMajorityPlantSpeciesCancerFishesZoneSnakesInsectsFringePoisonousLizardsTropic Of CancerCapricornsPoisonous Snakes Author:David Fairchild
“In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.” AnimalWindAreasVarietyProtectedInsectsAnnoyedBitingWindy Author:Tim Cahill
“People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.” PeopleFirstsLittlesPossessionDependentInsectsLecturesPrized Possessions Author:Ben Elton
“Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.” FirstsNaturalGainsResistanceSelectionInsectsNatural SelectionBacteriaAntibioticsInsecticides Author:William A. Dembski
“If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.” PeopleIfsLooksLiteratureRaceAliensRobotsInsects Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.” UniversePoliticsWallApathyIndifferentInsectsBangs Author:Don Henley
“One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.” ExampleAspectBroadsChemicalsEngineeringInsectsBeneficialSpectrumMethodologyGenetic EngineeringFungiPests Author:Nina Fedoroff