Genus-species Quote by Comte De Buffon

“Naming nature doesn't tame nature.”

— Cameron Conaway

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

— Richard Dawkins

“The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals—recognize well enough to name—the more alienated we have come to feel from…

— Linda Bender

“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which…

— Charles Darwin

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Species that evolved from a common ancestor are bunched together under the heading ‘genus’ (plural genera).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But it is…

— Rob Dunn

“Taxonomy, also called systematics, is the science-based hierarchical classification of the world's species. The area had traditionally been an obscure academic discipline dominated by…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

“Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place”

— Kim Sterelny

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of…

— Anonymous

We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

— Albert M. Wolters