Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Guys, you can date whomever you want, but marry a girl who can back up a trailer.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.