Panorama Quotes - Page 2

• Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Integrity, Clouds

  Stephen Jay GOULD, Stephen Jay Gould (2009). “Punctuated Equilibrium”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Tragedy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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• Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.

  John Pfahl

  Dream, Drawing, Filled In

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• Debes darte cuenta ahora, más claramente que nunca, de que Dios te llama a servirle en y desde las actividades ordinarias, seculares y civiles de la vida humana. Él nos espera todos los días, en el laboratorio, en el quirófano, en el cuartel del ejército, en la cátedra universitaria, en la fábrica, en el taller, en los fileds, en el hogar y en todo el inmenso panorama del trabajo.

  Josemaría Escrivá

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

  Michel de Certeau

  Technology, Cities, Process

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• A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

  Tom Piazza

  Book, Cities, Kansas City

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• My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Real, Two

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• Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book, and when I wrote it I thought yes, that's it - if you think of life as a job, maybe by the time you get to, say, in my case, 60, you've finally gotten good at it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Book, Love You

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• En cuclillas sobre huesos viejos, excrementos y hierros oxidados, en un resplandor blanco de calor, un panorama de idiotas desnudos se extiende hasta el horizonte. Silencio absoluto -sus centros del habla están destruidos- excepto por el crepitar de las chispas y el estallido de la carne chamuscada cuando les aplican electrodos arriba y abajo de la columna vertebral. El humo blanco de la carne quemada flota en el aire inmóvil. Un grupo de niños ha atado a un idiota a un poste con alambre de espino, le ha encendido una hoguera entre las piernas y observa con curiosidad bestial cómo las llamas le lamen los muslos. Su carne se sacude en el fuego con agonía de insecto.

  William S. Burroughs

  Niños, aire, llamas

  "El almuerzo desnudo". Libro de William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• La Chica de la Época, paseándose ante uno por Broadway, es un panorama de horribles sorpresas de pies a cabeza. Su ropa la caracteriza. Ella nunca caracteriza su ropa. Está tapizada, no adornada. Está envuelta, no tapizada. Está fruncida, no doblada. Se pavonea, no barre. No tiene ninguno de los atributos de la naturaleza ni del arte. Ni calma la vista como una flor, ni la complace como un cuadro. Lo cansa como un caleidoscopio. Es un deslumbramiento sin sentido de efectos rotos.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Chica, Moda, Arte

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Verano, Correr, Libro

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• En manos de Tharoor [la historia de la India moderna] se transforma en la magia del Mahabharata.... Infinitamente inventivo, irreverente, sabio, ingenioso,... aborda en uno u otro nivel todo el panorama de la India moderna....Energético y lleno de acontecimientos.

  M. G. Vassanji

  Sabios, Manos, India Moderna

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• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Dust, Ideas, Growth

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Creer, Océano, Pensar

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). "Fantasio y otras obras"

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