Katharine Ross Quotes

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

I should like to take some one family to study thoroughly, principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species. By that means I am strongly of opinion that some definite results might be arrived at.

If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.