Zoology Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
— Nicolas Cage
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
— Charles Darwin
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What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?
— Roman Jakobson
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A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at…
— Lin Yutang
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great…
— Ernst Mayr
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In everyĆ bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young…
— Richard Louv
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet…
— Yann Martel
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Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things,…
— Joseph Campbell
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give…
— Victor Cousin
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I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so…
— Steve Jobs
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
— Karl von Frisch
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
— Yann Martel
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The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
— H. L. Mencken
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Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Zoology Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Zoology Quotes as follows: