Arthropods Quotes:

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Land, Dwelling, Humanity, Arthropods

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Intelligent, Organization, Giants, Arthropods

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.

- Benjamin Van Roy

topic: Successful, Animal, Discovery, Arthropods

There's no posterity to write for.  I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

- Peter Reading

topic: Writing, Posterity, Arthropods

Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

- Frank B. Salisbury

topic: Eye, Squids, Swim, Vertebrates, Arthropods

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

- Benjamin Van Roy

topic: Animal, Legs, Joints, Arthropods

Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds.

- Francisco J. Ayala

topic: Men, Ddt, Population, Pesticides, Arthropods

We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams”, p.283, Random House

topic: Animal, Discovery, Years, Vertebrates, Arthropods