Botany Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Botany Inspirational President Science Valuable
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 Copy Share Image
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is,… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning Flora Japonica… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image