Botany Quote by Anonymous

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

— Thomas Jefferson

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied…

— Karl Jaspers

“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer: in science…

— Hope Jahren

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

— Aaron Klug

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

— Sara Sheridan

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.

— Martin Rees

From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire…

— John Gorrie

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

— Patrick Bamford