Agents Quote by David Quammen

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without…

— Franz Boas

Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace…

— Charles Darwin

“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.”

— Bernd Heinrich

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which…

— Kathryn Schulz

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.”

— William Haggard

“I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”

— David Hume

“I've learned that people clam up if they know I'm Wallis Wallace. So out in public I pretend I'm Mavin Green, just a regular…

— Ron Roy

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult…

— Peter D. Mitchell

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous