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Quotes About Phylum

There was so much unrecognized novelty in the collection that at one point18 upon opening a new drawer Conway Morris famously was heard to mutter, 'Oh fuck, not another phylum.' The
~ Bill Bryson
Lobsters are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, same as insects. They're bugs. And bugs are only lobsters that have learned to fly.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida.
~ Philip K. Dick
Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled by Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
~ Natalie Merchant