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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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Books cannot always please, however good Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
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I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
E. O. Wilson
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
E. O. Wilson
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...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others. This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.
Charles Darwin
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Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
E. O. Wilson
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With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
Charles Darwin
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I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
Ernst Junger
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In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
Erasmus Darwin
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Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles Darwin
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Charles Darwin
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Theology made no provision for evolution.
E. O. Wilson
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Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
Charles Darwin
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
Carl Linnaeus
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I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.
Karl von Frisch
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A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.
Charles Darwin
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[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.
E. O. Wilson
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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson
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Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
George Crabbe
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Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
George Crabbe
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
David Rockefeller
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