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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
John Lubbock
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It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
Charles Darwin
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Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
George Crabbe
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
E. O. Wilson
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Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen but birds are not numerous in desart forests they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.
William Bartram
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This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
Charles Darwin
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The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
Charles Darwin
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
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In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
E. O. Wilson
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We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power and glory. It was a man's work, a duel on the fields whose flowers would be stained with blood. There is no lovelier death in the world... Anything rather than stay at home, anything to make one with the rest.
Ernst Junger
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Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
John Lubbock
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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.
Charles Darwin
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson
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If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.
Jean-Henri Fabre
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I might not of told you enough that I loved you but I didn't expect for you to cheat, I loved you and you knew that and I still do, I might of argued with you, pushed you away but I still loved, I still do, you walk away as I cry with my hand on my chest because my heart feels like it will tear.
Harriet Morgan
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Life is not measured by the time we live.
George Crabbe
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A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.
Charles Darwin
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It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
Ernst Junger
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Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
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See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
George Crabbe
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A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)
E. O. Wilson
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