Scientist Quotes

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
I am convinced that it is the light and the way.
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
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