Invertebrate Quotes

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

I study things like the life cycle of the worm.

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.