Biologist Quote by Lancelot Hogben

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing…

— Augustus William Hare

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural…

— Anonymous

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

— Ruth Benedict

“Our bodies and minds are the current manifestations of a transhuman heritage. We are the burgeoning borders of life, along with every other living…

— Richard J. Borden

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture.…

— Laurie Colwin

“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.”

— Carl Zimmer

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

— Anonymous

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well…

— Alfred North Whitehead