Edward Forbes Quotes

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

Edward Forbes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 12, 1815 - November 18, 1854

Topics

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We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Jim Talent

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The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Jeremy Irvine

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I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Joel Edgerton

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

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There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.

Ronnie Corbett

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The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?

Chief Bender

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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

William Gibson

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I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

Noomi Rapace

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I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

Marilyn Manson

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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Krista Tippett

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I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again.

Howard Jacobson

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