We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.” — Bernard Heuvelmans Copy Share Image
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same… — Alan Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. — Karl von Frisch Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We sat perfectly still in the dim light as the wolf approached closer, head cocked, mouth closed, and ears semi-erect. With these… — David Moskowitz Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins 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
“A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae.… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“If these d'Herelle bodies were really genes, fundamentally like our chromosome genes, they would give us an utterly new angle from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We see, then, that even from the zoological point of view, which is the least interesting and—note this—not decisive, a being in… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image