Faces Quote by Richard E. Blackwelder

You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species.

— Niki Caro

“The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.”

— Alan Hodgkin

A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This…

— Alfred Korzybski

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist"…

— Wendell Berry

“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

[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two…

— Ernst Mayr

“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

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to…

— Kevin Warwick

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are…

— Vijay Prashad

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

— Bill Bryson