Marston Bates Quotes
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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been…
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The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire…
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A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways…
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Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing how…
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The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts…
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The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.
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Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus…
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One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning…
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The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of…
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