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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.
Charles Darwin
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And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
Charles Darwin
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
Charles Darwin
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I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
David Rockefeller
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The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.
Marcello Malpighi
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Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
Charles Darwin
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Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
Ernst Junger
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.
Marcello Malpighi
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Charles Darwin
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The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.
E. O. Wilson
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
E. O. Wilson
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
Henry Walter Bates
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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
John Lubbock
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The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
Charles Darwin
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The great seal of truth is simplicity.
Herman Boerhaave
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
Charles Darwin
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Charles Darwin
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The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.
Alfred Kinsey
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
William Beebe
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.
Charles Darwin
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
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