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Naturalist Quotes by Greg Graffin
- I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all…
- A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
- I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
- I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of…
- I don't really bill myself as an atheist, even though there is a lot of atheism in naturalism. I would rather bill myself as a…
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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… — Carl Linnaeus
- It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin
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