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Entomologist Inspirational Quotes (703)

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The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating a plain untruth.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
Charles Darwin
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Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]
Ernst Junger
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I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
Charles Darwin
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False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
John Lubbock
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The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
Charles Darwin
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. Wilson
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The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
E. O. Wilson
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To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.
Charles Darwin
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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
George Crabbe
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Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
Charles Darwin
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Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
Densey Clyne
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Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
Charles Darwin
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.
Christiaan Huygens
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
John Lubbock
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
E. O. Wilson
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To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
Charles Darwin
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity
Alfred Russel Wallace
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So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.
E. O. Wilson
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He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
Charles Darwin
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