Ashamed Quote by Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

— John B. S. Haldane

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he…

— Claude Bernard

“A man is biologically incapable of giving ‘the look’.”

— Fennel Hudson

Nature is wont to hide herself

— Heraclitus

“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact…

— Carl Jung

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises…

— Alexander Herzen

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's…

— Alexander Pope

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces…

— Philipp Melanchthon