Red Queen Hypothesis

Famous quotes containing the words red, queen and/or hypothesis:

“It might become a wheel spoked red and white
In alternate stripes converging at a point
Of flame on the line, with a second wheel below,
Just rising, accompanying, arranged to cross,
Through weltering illuminations, humps
Of billows, downward, toward the drift-fire shore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The Queen had one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. “Off with his head!” she said without even looking around.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
—Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)