Attainment Quote by Louis Agassiz

This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in…

— H. L. Mencken

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

— Tim Crane

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I…

— Greg Graffin

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad…

— Jonathan Swift

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you…

— Greg Graffin

“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the…

— Roman Payne

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a…

— Konrad Lorenz

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still…

— Loren Eiseley

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest,…

— Edwin Way Teale