Best Morphology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. At the same time, it has been shown that certain forms persist with very little change, from the oldest to the newest fossiliferous formations; and thus show that progressive development is a contingent, and not a necessary result, of the nature of living matter.”

Matter Science Nature Development Evolution Living Evidence Remains Biology Fossils Convincing Requirement Morphology Examine Contingent

Book:Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The

Source: Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The

“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Different Form Science Used Term Challenges Levels Existence Study Higher Degrees Standards Claims Patterns Complexity Geometry Exhibits Different Levels Fragmented Euclid Morphology

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.”

Doe Made Sound Views Ought Performances Died Structure Characteristics Etc Consideration Length Precise Frequency Morphology

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.”

Body Action Left Bits Influence Building Series Environmental Internals Genes Selection Fingernails Morphology Environmental Influences

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of his students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. This frightening apparition burst into Cuvier's bedroom when he was fast asleep and claimed: 'Wake up thou man of catastrophes. I am the Devil. I have come to devour you!' Cuvier studied the apparition carefully and critically said, 'I doubt whether you can. You have horns and hooves. You eat only plants.”

Men Said Doubt Students Devil Wake Up Plant Shoes Tales Frightening Bedroom Catastrophe Horns Dressed Up Anecdotes Apparitions Visitation Morphology

Author:Georges Cuvier

“All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.”

Together Form Animal Organs Corresponding Modification Morphology

Author:Georges Cuvier

“Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in such a way as to render possible the existence of the being as a whole, not only in itself, but also in its relations with other beings, and the analysis of these conditions often leads to general laws which are as certain as those which are derived from calculation or from experiment.”

Way Doe Different Whole Law Certain Existence Conditions Relation Experiments Analysis Calculations Morphology

Author:Georges Cuvier

“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.”

Thinking Today Purpose Ability Organization Structure Critical Employee Productive Capability Morphology

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.”

Happens Bad Things Morphology

Author:Jimenez Lai

“The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.”

Ideas Language Morphology

Author:Jimenez Lai

“Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.”

Want Looks Two Ideas Today Form Trouble Movement Ideals Gender Engaged Criticize Feminine Masculine Critique Intersex Morphology

Author:Judith Butler

“To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”

Mean Culture Speak Support Civilization Weight Assuming Phenomenon Syntax Morphology

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.”

Feels Form Science Nature Challenges Existence Study Theory Patterns Chosen Mathematician Euclid Fractals Devising Morphology

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected in enormous quantities for analysis; that would be the precondition for placing the chemist in such a position as would allow him to analyse [the hereditary material] more minutely than [can] the morphologists ... For the morphology of the nucleus has reference at the very least to the gearing of the clock, but at best the chemistry of the nucleus refers only to the metal from which the gears are formed.”

“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.”

Cities Sun Bored Temples Morphology

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.”

“We did not purify... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. They were very different... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.”

Different Causes Saws Shapes Aids Typical Particles Morphology

Author:Luc Montagnier

“Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.”

Knows Way Facts Felt Serious Poet Scientist Died Plant Very Good Hearing Active Bitter Grants Morphology

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”

Normal Size Make Sense Opposition Excess Obesity Distinctive Delirium Obese Redundancy Morphology

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.”

Whole Character Courses Nature Views Generations Conditions Behavior Plant Point Of View Distinctive Morphology

Author:Theophrastus

“Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.”

Two Hands Science Individual Abstract Branches Concrete Developmental Nomenclature Morphology

Author:Ernst Haeckel

“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”

Mean Use Certain Culture Speak Language Support Position Civilization Weight Importance Assuming Phenomenon Syntax Morphology

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks