Leon Quotes

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

The chameleon Love can feed on the air

And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

I'll be the next Leonardo DiCaprio, sure.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion....The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.