Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing how these work together, as in physiology; reaching down still further to the level of cells,… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography. — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way,"… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
