Scientist Quotes

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
I waged war against my feelings.
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
The mercantile business did not suit me.
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
We live in an epoch of denudation.
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