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Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Ernst Mayr
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming! That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Ernst Haeckel
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
Ernst Haeckel
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In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
Jared Diamond
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To be and to think are one and the same for us.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
John James Audubon
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion.
Roger Tory Peterson
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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt
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They that make laws must not break them.
John Ray
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
Theodore Roosevelt
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During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
Lorenz Oken
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