But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“The BBC's flagship natural history programme, was first shown in 1977, with The Bird That Beat The US Navy.” — Gareth Huw Davies Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools. — Robert Falcon Scott 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… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was convinced that the Natural History Museum was missing only one thing: a unicorn. Well, a unicorn and a dragon. Also… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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
“The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously.… — Eugene Delacroix 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… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole 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… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like you’re something he found in a natural history museum.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella 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
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
If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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