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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
Thomas Eisner
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I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
E. O. Wilson
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
Carl Linnaeus
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A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
George Crabbe
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller
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Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.
Charles Darwin
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Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.
E. O. Wilson
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Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.
Erasmus Darwin
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I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
Charles Darwin
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In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: All animals undergo perpetual transformations which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
Erasmus Darwin
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Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
George Crabbe
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Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
Charles Darwin
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE!
Erasmus Darwin
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
E. O. Wilson
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise and this into astonishment and this into stupefied amazement.
Charles Darwin
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[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.
Erasmus Darwin
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The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
E. O. Wilson
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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
E. O. Wilson
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.
Erasmus Darwin
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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.
E. O. Wilson
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