“As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“decade after the first edition of this book was published, Yan Wong and I met in the fitting surroundings of the Oxford… — Richard Dawkins 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… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions… — Charles L. Whitfield Copy Share Image
If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older… — Kiefer Sutherland 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… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“But Linnaeus took one bold step which changed humankind’s view of our place in nature for ever. He was the first person… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls,… — Joni L. James Copy Share Image
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
