Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists. — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Agassiz trained an army of able young naturalists who took his method to other universities, and they in turn passed them on… — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
“I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“There’s people who make their living with animals,” she said. “Naturalists they’re called. You could be one of them.” “From then on… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
