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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.
Georges Cuvier
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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
Theodore Roosevelt
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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
Carl Linnaeus
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier
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This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.
Ernst Mayr
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus
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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
John Ray
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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
Jared Diamond
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl Linnaeus
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With great victory comes great sacrifice.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Georges Cuvier
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When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.
Pentti Linkola
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I have had a great time as president.
Theodore Roosevelt
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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I am an American free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.
Edward Lear
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.
Pentti Linkola
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
Ernst Mayr
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