“was considered a rarity in the wider world.” New York Times, “A Stone-Age Horse Still Roams a Tibetan Plateau,” November 12, 1995.
“a sort of giant ground sloth . . .” Economist, “A World to Explore,” December 23, 1995, p. 95.
“A single line of text in a Crampton table . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, pp. 32-34.
“he hiked 2,500 miles to assemble a collection . . .” Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile, pp. 159-60.
“about the same number of components . . .” New Scientist, title unnoted, December 2, 2000, p. 37.
“no more than about 2 percent . . .” Brown, p. 83.
“scientists began to find it all over the place . . .” Brown, p. 229.
“It is converted into nitric oxide in the bloodstream . . .” Alberts et al., Essential Cell Biology, p. 489.
“‘some few hundred’ different types of cell . . .” De Duve, vol. 1, p. 21.
“If you are an average-sized adult . . .” Bodanis, The Secret Family, p. 106.
“Liver cells can survive for years . . .” De Duve, vol. 1, p. 68.
“not so much as a stray molecule . . .” Bodanis, The Secret Family, p. 81.
“Hooke calculated that a one-inch square of cork . . .” Nuland, p. 100.
“After he reported finding ‘animalcules’ . . .” Jardine, p. 93.
“there were 8,280,000 of these tiny beings . . .” Thomas, p. 167.
“He called the little beings ‘homunculi’ . . .” Schwartz, p. 167.
“In one of his least successful experiments . . .” Carey (ed.), The Faber Book of Science, p. 28.
“all living matter is cellular.” Nuland, p. 101.
“The cell has been compared to many things . . .” Trefil, 101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either, p. 133; and Brown, p. 78.
“a jolt of twenty million volts per meter.” Brown, p. 87.
“approximate consistency ‘of a light grade of machine oil’ . . .” Nuland, p. 103.
“up to a billion times a second . . .” Brown, p. 80.
“the molecular world must necessarily remain . . .” De Duve, vol. 2, p. 293.
“100 million protein molecules in each cell . . .” Nuland, p. 157.
“At any given moment, a typical cell . . .” Alberts et al., p. 110.
“Every day you produce and use up . . .”Nature, “Darwin’s Motors,” May 2, 2002, p. 25.
“On average, humans suffer one fatal malignancy . . .” Ridley, Genome, p. 237.
“the single best idea that anyone has ever had . . .” Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, p. 21.
CHAPTER 25 DARWIN’S SINGULAR NOTION
“Everyone is interested in pigeons . . .” quoted in Boorstin, Cleopatra’s Nose, p. 176.
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching . . .” Quoted in Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 467.
“The experience of witnessing an operation . . .” Desmond and Moore, Darwin, p. 27.
“some ‘bordering on insanity’ . . .” Hamblyn, The Invention of Clouds, p. 199.
“In five years . . . he had not once hinted . . .” Desmond and Moore, p. 197.
“atolls could not form in less than a million years . . .” Moorehead, Darwin and the Beagle, p. 239.
