“ Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original… Asa Gray
“ But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtab… Yann Martel
“ The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way. Alan Hodgkin
“ The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. Yann Martel
“ Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned, Orders, by the degrees of complication… Louis Agassiz
“ We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in such condition can never achieve a genuine equilibrium; we also see som… Jose Ortega y Gasset
“ A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae. Starfish. Annelids with simple brains and a hundred toes. Spong… Jake Vander-Ark
