Quotes by Biologists

Play invites participation.
Brian Goodwin
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
Patrick Geddes
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Thomas Henry Huxley
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
T. H. Huxley
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
T. H. Huxley
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Charles Darwin
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
J.B.S. Haldane
As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin
Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy greater intellectual vigor moral stamina and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician I have seen men after all other therapy had failed lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
Charles Darwin
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Charles Darwin
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
J.B.S. Haldane
As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin
Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy greater intellectual vigor moral stamina and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician I have seen men after all other therapy had failed lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
Charles Darwin
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.
Thomas Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
Thomas Huxley
To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).
Jean Rostand
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.
Henry Drummond
Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
Henry Drummond
Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
God that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley