Famous quotes containing the words mantis and/or evolution:
“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Analyze theory-building how we will, we all must start in the middle. Our conceptual firsts are middle-sized, middle-distanced objects, and our introduction to them and to everything comes midway in the cultural evolution of the race.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)