quotes

Answer to the "genetic modification myth," "GM food means that we'd be eating genes and it's not natural to eat another organism's genes,"

It's impossible to eat without eating genes.

from Biotechnology Australia (via Eye on DNA)

Daniel Drezner, commenting on why suburbs mark the top ten places to live for "families with children":

At this point in the 21st century, having small children is kind of like belonging to a different religious persuasion that others view as bizarre and discomfiting. It's nice to be with one's own kind during these years.

Joel Allen (1877:139), quoted in Virginie Millien and colleagues (2006):

The present more or less unstable condition of the circumstances surrounding organic beings, together with the known mutations of climate our planet has undergone in past geological ages, points clearly to the agency of physical conditions as one of the chief factors in the evolution of new forms of life.

References:

Allen JA. 1877. The influence of physical conditions in the genesis of species. Radical Review 1:108-140.

Millien V, Lyons SK, Olson L, Smith FA, Wilson AB, Yom-Tov Y. 2006. Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules. Ecology Letters 9:853-869. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00928.x

G. H. R. von Koenigswald, in "Early Man: Facts and Fantasy", p. 67:

When I say 'our science' I mean what is called the science of Early Man or Palaeoanthropology, of which one quarter is anthropology, another palaeontology, another archaeology, and the last quarter is composed of fantasy, intuition, hard work and good luck, because our early ancestors really are elusive. What in more than a hundred years has been discovered of Neanderthal Man, fills but a small churchyard. What is known of pre-Neanderthal Man can be placed on two middle-sized tables, and what might belong to our Tertiary ancestors I can put on the palm of my hand. You can expect traces of Early Man practically everywhere, in caves, sand pits, and Chinese drugstores, but the hunt is still difficult, you have to be hunter and dog in one person.

References:

von Koenigswald GHR. 1964. Early man: facts and fantasy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 94:67-79.