Jellyfish Quotes
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South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.
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More Jellyfish Quotes
Gaskell could not abide this indecorous version of his beloved linear progress theory. He could not bear to imagine that the grand procession from jellyfish to man, orchestrated by an ever-increasing mass of nervous tissue, once paused in its stately and orderly march toward human consciousness in order to execute a fancy little flip, a clever jig of inversion, just at the sublime and definitive moment of entrance into the vertebral home stretch.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 327
When you look into eyes, forget about romance, creation, and the windows into the soul. With their molecules, genes, and tissues derived from microbes, jellyfish, worms, and flies, you see an entire menagerie.
— Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cavemen dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
— W. H. Carruth, Each in his Own Tongue; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 241-42.
In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy toa degree? He moves from point to point with as little uproar as a jellyfish.
Plum— 1919 My ManJeeves,'Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg'.
[The Leesburg Garden Club is a] nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
lyndon larouche— Quoted in Chicago Tribune (2 December 1988) "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant" p. 13
