Acquire Quote by Tobias Smollett

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

— Tobias Smollett

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

— Matt Walsh

“In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.”

— Thomas Hayden

“My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron composition by…

— Robert Lowell

“derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots are à,…

— Phil Cousineau

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.”

— Jud H. Copeland Brian C. O'Connor Jodi L. Kearns

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

— Gilbert Ryle

“Our hosts had been kind to us and considerate as only Mexicans can be. Furthermore, they had taught us the best ways to go…

— John Steinbeck

The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what…

— Ovid

“*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.”

— Herman Melville