"Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist."

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Source : David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive

David Lack

#Garden Quotes #Museums Quotes #Might Quotes

“Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.”
“If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!”
“I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.”
“You get older and you learn there is one sentence just four worlds long and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like thisâ€¦ Ready â€ â€œReady.â€ â€œAt least I tried.”
“The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.”
“To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.”
“Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over”
“To my everlasting relief, heâ€™d also stopped with the starch a few years back . The military made him big on spray starch, but I point-blank refused to touch the stuff after a while. He finally gave up doing it himself, and I manfully restrained myself from pointing out that the world didnâ€™t explode when he did. And they say maturity is just for adults.”

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