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Zoologist Inspirational Quotes (1193)

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The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.
Mark Carwardine
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Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.
Warder Clyde Allee
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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
Jean Piaget
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If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.
Alison Jolly
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
Alison Jolly
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Man is an ape with possibilities.
Roy Chapman Andrews
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Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.
Marcello Malpighi
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Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
Alfred Romer
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The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
Alfred Kinsey
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Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
Alfred Kinsey
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Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
Alfred Kinsey
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The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Jean Piaget
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
William Bartram
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
William Bartram
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
William Bartram
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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram
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Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram
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The isness of things is well worth studying but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
William Beebe
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Earth has few secrets from the birds.
William Beebe
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
William Beebe
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To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
William Beebe
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A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
William Beebe
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