Taxonomists Quotes
- It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,… — Richard Leakey
- Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are… — Richard E. Blackwelder
- [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay… — Richard E. Blackwelder