Specimens Quotes
58 quotes by 53 authors
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
— John James Audubon
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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.
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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
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
— Abraham Maslow
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We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
— Sara Bonnett Stein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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