Asa Gray Quotes

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

Asa Gray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888

Topics

FamilyPlantsEvidenceWithoutOnce

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Andrew Young

PeopleBlackSpeechDreamWhite

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

John Irving

PeopleSympathyInterestingYouWho

Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.

Robert Kennedy

WorldMeaningTelevisionDistance

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Roberto Goizueta

RisksWillAlwaysForeverGoing

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

Robin DiAngelo

WomenColorBlackWhiteUndermine

Love is the substance of human survival.

Josh Tillman

LoveLove IsSurvivalHuman

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

Antony Garrett Lisi

MathematicsUniverseQuantumOurHow

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Austan Goolsbee

GreatDepressionMoneyPeopleYou

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Peter Dinklage

GreatWritingThinkYouBackDown

We're not too top heavy with executives. I don't have to check with New York or L.A. My crew walks in, we talk about something, and either we do it or we don't. There's not a long, drawn out process.

Scott Borchetta

New YorkProcessLongNewTalkTop

I make a point of not logging into websites that give spoilers.

Noah Wyle

WebsitesPointGiveMake

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

Ryan Holiday

SuccessFailureEgoGreatestWell

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