Specimens Quotes

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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
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
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information… — Robert Wright
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to… — Louis Agassiz
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens… — Louis Agassiz
If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a… — Aristotle
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy — Abraham Maslow
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. — Sara Bonnett Stein
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children.… — Edward Abbey
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man… — John Fowles
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation,… — Charles Spurgeon
I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and… — Walt Whitman
I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take… — Jack Handey
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often… — Vijay Prashad

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