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Zoologist Inspirational Quotes (1191)

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When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock
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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Ernst Mayr
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Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!
William Jacob Holland
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Play is the work of childhood.
Jean Piaget
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Every man praises his own wares.
John Ray
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Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Temple Grandin
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A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
Greg Graffin
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It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery.
Temple Grandin
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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
Al-Jahiz
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Animals engage in a struggle for existence for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.
Al-Jahiz
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We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Al-Jahiz
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The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and ideas, and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.
William Vogt
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Jean Piaget
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A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.
Ernst Mayr
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To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.
Temple Grandin
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The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Lynn Margulis
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
Rachel Carson
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
William Bartram
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I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.
Wolfgang Ostwald
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What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
Wolfgang Ostwald
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Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.
Wolfgang Ostwald
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