Biology Quote by Richard E. Blackwelder

“Taxonomy, also called systematics, is the science-based hierarchical classification of the world's species. The area had traditionally been an obscure academic discipline dominated by…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its…

— Stephen Jay Gould

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology…

— W. R. Thompson

“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating…

— William King Gregory

“The evolution of species by natural selection is a proven fact. That debate is well and truly over.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I…

— Charles Darwin

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

“From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and advancing many…

— Robert Chambers

“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want…

— Anonymous

“Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of…

— Sten Lindroth

The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for…

— Richard E. Blackwelder