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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
David Rockefeller
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
E. O. Wilson
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The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.
Charles Nodier
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That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
Charles Darwin
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As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
Charles Darwin
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Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
John Lubbock
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
Charles Nodier
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Dreams are like portraits and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.
George Crabbe
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Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along Make us the madness of their will obey Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!
George Crabbe
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There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
John Lubbock
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Charles Darwin
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
David Rockefeller
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One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.
Charles Darwin
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Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.
George Crabbe
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
E. O. Wilson
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Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.
E. O. Wilson
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Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.
Lorenz Oken
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I do not like to be unkind.
David Rockefeller
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I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.
Christiaan Huygens
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You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.
Charles Darwin
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It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved that the subject was in the air, or that men's minds were prepared for it. I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.
Charles Darwin
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Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.
David Rockefeller
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Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Charles Darwin
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