Biologist Quote by John B. S. Haldane

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

— Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

“In either case, natural teleology would mean that the universe is rationally governed in more than one way—not only through the universal quantitative laws…

— Thomas Nagel

“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin , organisms are like grapeshot of…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through…

— Henry David Thoreau

“That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

— Rudyard Kipling

“She lives in a world made entirely of the sky. It is inconceivable that one day, her world will grow so dark and distant…

— Amy Zhang

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under…

— Rachel Carson

“Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own!”

— J.D. Salinger

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

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge