Animal Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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 quite short.

— Terry Pratchett

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring…

— Warwick Fox

“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating…

— William King Gregory

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

— Heinrich Heine

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

— Ambrose Bierce

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

— Jack Horner

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first…

— William Whewell

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

— Leonardo da Vinci

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified,…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco