Naturalist Quotes
73 quotes by 55 authors
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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for…
— E. O. Wilson
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the…
— Louis Agassiz
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything…
— Charles Darwin
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[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
— John Burroughs
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared…
— Charles Darwin
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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile…
— Robert Boyle
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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides…
— David Quammen
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),…
— Robert Boyle
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Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong.…
— Michael Ruse
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Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.
— Charles Darwin
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God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my…
— Michael Jackson
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The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
— David Weinberger
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Although I am fully convinced of the truth of Evolution, I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists. But I look with confidence to…
— Charles Darwin
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.…
— John Berger
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns…
— James Hutton
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